Discord · 17 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$196K/yr - $220K/yr
4+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and socializing. The Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team will design and build core features to enhance the experience for game developers, ensuring high-quality software and collaboration with various stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
Design and build out core features for our audience of game developers. This could include anything from our APIs, realtime infrastructure, C++ SDKs, developer portal, or even in the UI. Whatever it takes to get the important thing done
Use your attention to detail to continually raise the quality bar of the software we write
Work with the other engineers on your team to write, review, and ship elegant and scalable code. You take pride in the fact that your code will be used by millions and millions of people!
Be the lead on projects through the whole life cycle: including gathering requirements, mapping out its scope, building, and shipping it
Collaborate with our game developer partners to better understand their needs in order to improve our tools. This could mean hopping into partner meetings as a technical expert, answering questions in channels, and occasionally helping them design out a solution
Work with product managers, designers, and product marketers to cut through ambiguity and find the way forward
Qualification
Required
4-5 years experience as a software engineer
Experience with some parts of our tech stack: Python, Elixir, Rust, Typescript/React, or C++
A sense for product and design
Ability to express opinions and collaborate to make something great
A holistic approach to problem solving
Ability to learn from mistakes and work through obstacles with the team
Actively leverage LLMs to accelerate productivity
Preferred
Experience with game development
Familiarity with Unity and/or Unreal
Experience with mobile development
Experience leveraging a cloud platform (GCP, Amazon, or Azure) to serve as the backend infrastructure for a product
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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