Discord is looking to revolutionize the way users interact with their platform through innovative ad formats, aiming to generate revenue by building a win-win-win suite of distribution tools for game developers, players, and Discord itself. The Senior Software Engineer will help scale the platform to new heights and enhance user engagement through digital advertising and marketplace interactions.
Requirements
- Expertise with Typescript, React, React Native, Python and/or Rust
- Familiarity with experimentation and analysis
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Experience in the ad delivery space.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure from the backend to frontend.
- Collaborate with both engineers on and off the team - from Revenue Infrastructure, to Core Tech, to Machine Learning, to Data Science.
- Architect simple and maintainable systems to enable us to launch quickly and iterate while sustaining a high product and technical quality bar.
- Introduce coding and operational best practices to the team; always be learning & teaching.
- Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance.
Other
- A focus on impact. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great.
- A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution.
- A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes.
- A love of mentorship. Helping fellow engineers, providing feedback and guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs.
- Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties).
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits.
