Discord · 1 day ago
Senior Software Engineer - Web Platform
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$196K/yr - $220K/yr
3+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and social interaction. The Senior Software Engineer on the Web Platform team will enhance build tooling and developer workflows, improving productivity for frontend engineers and user interactions.
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Responsibilities
Building and maintaining the tools, pipelines, and processes that keep frontend development at Discord fast, safe, and reliable
Becoming an expert in JavaScript tooling and serving as a resource to help teams solve any and all problems they encounter during development
Refactoring and upgrading the codebase to pay down tech debt, keep up with the state of the art in web development, and drive progress toward better maintainability
Writing new and unique tools based on the specific needs of Discord’s frontend projects to make everything Just Work
Digging deep into bundlers, linters, formatters, editor plugins, and more to optimize their performance, adopt and test new features early on, and continuously improve the experience for the developers using them
Qualification
Required
3+ years of working with JavaScript tools and the Node.js ecosystem
Familiarity with and a desire to work across multiple programming languages (generally including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Go, and Swift)
Experience developing and maintaining CLI tools and packages in JavaScript
A strong sense for writing maintainable code and deliberately documenting for the future
Understanding of all of the tools involved in frontend development and how they work together
Preferred
Familiarity and experience with localization in frontend applications
Familiarity with React Native, related tools (Metro, Hermes), and bridging between JavaScript and native code
Experience with directly maintaining or writing plugins for tools like bundlers, linters, or formatters in any language
Experience with CI/CD orchestration, Cloudflare workers, cloud storage providers, and other application deployment processes
Benefits
Equity
Benefits
Company
Discord
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$995.41MKey Investors
Flat CapitalDragoneer Investment GroupSony Interactive Entertainment
2024-03-01Secondary Market
2022-11-22Series I
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M
Leadership Team
Mike Polner
VP, Global Head of Marketing
Bob Bahramipour
Head of Ecosystem Partnerships
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