Staff Software Engineer

Inclusively; United States; Remote; USD 248,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord, a leading platform in future gaming, is looking for a mission-focused Staff Software Engineer to oversee technical roadmap and enhance revenue products. The remote role requires extensive experience in full stack development and a collaborative approach to innovating revenue solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience as a software engineer.
• Solid understanding of web (React, TypeScript) and mobile development (React Native, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift).
• Experience leading large initiatives from inception to launch.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the technical roadmap across Consumer Revenue.
• Accelerate growth of existing revenue streams and develop new opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and marketing teams.

Skills

Full stack development

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Revenue at Discord

Senior-Level

Posted

3 months ago

Regular Full-Time

Hiring remotely

About the job

Hot Job!

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 technical, hands-on, and mission-focused Staff Engineer to help scale our technology and revenue driving products. You will help oversee the technical roadmap across our Consumer Revenue org. You will work with teams across the organization such as Engineering, Product, Data Science, Design and Marketing to ensure that the technical strategy maps to the revenue goals of the team. Come help us scale our platform and products to directly promote the vision of multi-billion dollars in revenue at Discord.

What You'll Be Doing

• Focus on accelerating growth of existing revenue streams while laying the foundation for the development of new revenue streams and monetization opportunities.
• Collaborate with staff engineers and partners across the organization to ensure technical agreement to other systems, products and vision.
• Partner with Product, Design, Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Success to ship new initiatives that unlock revenue streams.
• Advise the leadership team on essential technical considerations related to ensuring engineering excellence and successful high impact key initiatives.

What you should have

• 7+ years of industry 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 have a sense for product and design. We don’t operate in silos, and you’ll be collaborating closely with cross-functional peers (product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers. You should be able to express opinions and collaborate to make something great.
• 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.

This position is US-based only and remote.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 - $279,000 + 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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About Discord

Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.