Discord · 1 day ago
Director, Engineering (Client & Performance)
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Responsibilities
Build and lead multiple teams of highly-engaged managers and engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.
Collaborate with peers across the business to drive meaningful business impact in user engagement metrics by delivering on mobile performance and quality goals.
Work with best-in-class talent, inside and outside of Discord, to set the bar for what is possible with React Native.
Drive public perception by working with teams like Marketing and Comms to talk about the work your teams are doing.
Manage processes and use your technical expertise to continually improve the team and ensure your team achieves extraordinary results.
Work with other Directors to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy.
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Required
5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and have maintained technical depth as a leader.
5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed groups of 3+ Engineering Managers and 15+ Software Engineers.
2+ years of experience managing other Managers.
Enjoy coming up with pragmatic solutions to concrete problems using first principles thinking.
Deeply understand mobile performance and React Native and are excited by the challenge of delivering an incredible product to 200 million users.
Passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but secretly love getting elbow deep in architecture design when the opportunities arise.
Keep up with the industry trends and identify new tools to use to solve technical problems — and are excited to push the envelope.
Preferred
Experience defining and building new teams and departments from scratch.
A background owning critical performance metrics at a company level.
C++ and Native development experience, particularly on mobile.
Experience hiring for fast-growing startups.
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Discord
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
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2021 (15)
2020 (7)
Funding
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$995.41MKey Investors
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2024-03-01Secondary Market· undefined
2022-11-22Series I· undefined
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M
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