Senior Software Engineer

Discord is a voice, video, and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games, and have fun. Founded in 2015, Discord has grown to support millions of daily active users and plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming.

We are looking for a highly technical, creative, hands-on, and impact-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Ads team. Our team is revolutionizing the way users interact with our platform through innovative ad formats (including Quests). We are driven by a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences while scaling our platform to new heights. These products enable us to generate revenue by building a win-win-win suite of distribution tools for game developers, players, and Discord.

• Design, build, and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure from backend to frontend.
• Collaborate with engineers on and off the team, including Revenue Infrastructure, Core Tech, Machine Learning, and Data Science.
• Be a strategic partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional leadership in designing, developing, and scaling digital advertising features that drive revenue growth and enhance user engagement.
• Architect simple and maintainable systems to enable quick launches and iteration while sustaining a high product and technical quality bar.
• Model strong ownership by acting autonomously when possible and looping in others to build confidence on critical questions.
• Introduce coding and operational best practices to the team; always be learning and teaching.
• Own projects end to end, from refining requirements with Product and other stakeholders to creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance.

• 5+ years of experience
• A focus on impact: a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems.
• A sense of ownership: believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution.
• A growth mindset: view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon successes.
• A love of mentorship: helping fellow engineers, providing feedback and guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs.

• Expertise with Python and/or Rust, TypeScript, React, React Native
• Experience in the ad space
• Familiarity with experimentation and analysis
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Interest or passion for the Discord platform

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Salary ranges are determined by role and level, and individual pay is determined by additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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