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Senior Software Engineer, Core Product

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in U.S.
196K-221K
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in U.S.
196K-221K
Senior level
Join Discord's Core Product team to enhance core features like messaging and voice chat, collaborating with various teams to impact user experience.
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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.

We're looking for a highly motivated, mission-focused Senior Engineer to join our Core Product team. Core Product is responsible for improving the core value of Discord, including chatting, hanging out with friends, and expressing yourself. We work on improving core features like messaging, voice chat, user profiles, and app navigation. You will work across the full stack to build delightful and impactful features that are focused on making Discord the best place to play games and hangout with your friends online.

We’re looking for engineers that have strong product sense and are fearless in jumping between technical stacks. You’ll be working with highly experienced engineering peers and cross functional partners while reporting to the Engineering Manager of Core Product.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Building delightful products with a very high bar for quality, performance, and a focus on impact
  • Working with Product, Design, Data Science, UX Research, and Marketing to shape the team’s vision and roadmap
  • Helping find the right solutions that balance delight, speed of delivery and impact by collaborating with design and product partners

You Will Thrive In This Role If

  • You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
  • You have experience with React (preferred) and/or JavaScript
  • You have specialized in building consumer-facing products on web and mobile platforms
  • You have developed domain expertise in either web or mobile front-end (or both)
  • You are eager to learn new languages and frameworks, and are comfortable working across the full stack when needed
  • You have worked in a product team with clear metrics goals and had a measurable positive impact on customers
  • You have a strong product sense and take pride in sweating the details of great UX
  • You are motivated to help your team members succeed and grow and learn from each other through empathetic feedback

Bonus Points

  • You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications
  • You’ve worked on React Native products


This position is US-based only and remote.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Why Discord? 
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

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Top Skills

JavaScript
React

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