Senior Growth Engineer: Onboarding & Activation

Discord Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Growth team. You’ll work across the stack to build systems that acquire and activate users at scale, from onboarding to the first moments on the platform.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science to identify high-impact opportunities, run A/B experiments, and maintain high performance and reliability for user-facing properties.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in TypeScript and React with a track record of delivering high-performance frontend experiences.
• Practical experience with Python and backend frameworks such as Flask.
• Experience designing and running A/B tests with a focus on data-driven decision making.
• Comfort working across the full stack and taking ownership of projects end to end.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize user-facing experiences that improve how people discover, understand, and get started with Discord
• Develop scalable backend systems that serve dynamic, high-performance content at scale
• Work across the full stack — frontend (TypeScript, React) and backend (Python) — wherever the problem leads
• Design and run A/B experiments to measure the impact of your work on user acquisition and activation
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to identify high-impact growth opportunities and iterate quickly
• Maintain performance and reliability standards for user-facing properties
• Write code that's readable, reviewable, and built with the next engineer in mind

Skills

TypeScript

React

Python

Flask

A/B testing

Job description

Discord Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Growth team. You’ll work across the stack to build systems that acquire and activate users at scale, from onboarding to the first moments on the platform.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science to identify high-impact opportunities, run A/B experiments, and maintain high performance and reliability for user-facing properties.