Discord · 3 days ago
Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$196K/yr - $220K/yr
4+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming. The role involves designing and building core features for game developers, collaborating with various teams to enhance tools and infrastructure for a better gaming experience.
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Responsibilities
Design and build out core features for our audience of game developers
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
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
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
Belief in solving a problem from first principles rather than simply shipping a solution
Ability to learn from mistakes and work through obstacles with the rest of the team
Active leverage of 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
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (13)
2022 (18)
2021 (5)
2020 (2)
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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