Staff Software Engineer, Notification Products - Remote

Overview

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

In Short

• Design and build the platform that enables teams at Discord to send delightful notifications while delivering the maximum value to our users.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Machine Learning, and Infrastructure teams to ship impactful capabilities for our notifications platform.
• Building delightful products with a very high bar for quality, performance, and a focus on impact.
• Collaborate with staff engineers and partners across the organization to ensure technical agreement to other systems, products and vision.
• Use your technical expertise to constantly improve and ensure your team achieves extraordinary results at the high technical level we set.
• Advise the leadership team on essential technical considerations related to ensuring engineering excellence and successful high impact key initiatives.

Requirements

• You have 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• We’re a multi-platform (full stack) team, so it’s important that you have a solid understanding of the development frameworks and fundamentals of one or more of our platforms: web (React, TypeScript), Android (React Native, Kotlin), iOS (React Native, Objective-C, Swift), and backend (Python and some Elixir).
• You have experience leading large initiatives from inception to launch.
• You have experience building and shipping product features. Especially features for products at large scale or in real-time applications.
• You take a holistic approach to problem solving. You believe in solving a problem from first principles rather than simply shipping a solution. You learn from your mistakes and work through obstacles with the rest of the team.
• You are motivated to help your team members succeed and grow and learn from each other through empathetic feedback.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on impactful projects.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Flexible work arrangements.