Senior Growth Software Engineer: Onboarding & Activation

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

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Job summary

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Growth team in San Francisco. You will own onboarding and activation experiences, building across the stack with TypeScript/React on the frontend and Python/Flask on the backend.

You’ll design and run A/B tests and collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science to drive scalable growth. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, high-impact contributions to user discovery, and performance reliability for user-facing properties.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in TypeScript and React.
• Practical experience with Python and Flask.
• Experience designing and running A/B tests with data-driven decisions.
• Comfort working across the full stack and owning projects end to end.
• Growth-focused engineering experience on activation/onboarding/ acquisition.
• Experience building SEO infrastructure or interest in LLMs and search engines.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize user-facing experiences that help users discover and start with Discord.
• Develop scalable backend systems serving high-performance content at scale.
• Work across frontend (TypeScript/React) and backend (Python) as needed.
• Design and run A/B experiments to measure impact on acquisition and activation.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science to identify growth opportunities.
• Maintain performance and reliability for user-facing properties.
• Write readable, reviewable code designed for future engineers.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Python

Flask

A/B testing

full-stack ownership

growth-focused

SEO infrastructure

Tools

HTML/CSS

Job description

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Growth team in San Francisco. You will own onboarding and activation experiences, building across the stack with TypeScript/React on the frontend and Python/Flask on the backend.

You’ll design and run A/B tests and collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science to drive scalable growth. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, high-impact contributions to user discovery, and performance reliability for user-facing properties.