Discord is looking to improve user experience and make it easier for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games, by creating beautiful, intuitive user interfaces across Discord's web and mobile platforms.
Requirements
- 5+ years of front-end development experience building rich, user-centric applications (web and/or mobile)
- Expertise in React: You have built complex applications and understand the React ecosystem/libraries deeply. You're eager to expand into React Native and excited about the opportunity to apply your React expertise to mobile development.
- Strong design sensibility: Passion for great design and user experience. You have an eye for detail and experience creating visually compelling interfaces
- Web animations expertise: Proven experience implementing smooth, performant animations and micro-interactions that enhance user experience
- Performance & Accessibility: Extensive knowledge of front-end performance optimizations and web accessibility standards like WCAG. You ensure that your UIs are not only beautiful but also fast and usable for everyone
- React Native experience: Experience building mobile applications with React Native
- Design Systems Experience: Proven track record of building or maintaining a design system or reusable UI component library at scale. You understand design tokens, theming, and how to create components that are flexible and extensible
Responsibilities
- Implement Highly Polished UIs: Function as both a thought leader who can craft thoughtful solutions to design problems both independently and in collaboration with dedicated designers. Bring interfaces to life with smooth web animations and delightful interactions, translating design concepts into pixel-perfect, high-quality code
- Front-End Excellence: Write clean, maintainable code in React and React Native, and drive best practices in performance and accessibility for all UI components across web platforms
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Product, Design, and Marketing to define your team's vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding the needs of our users. Seamlessly transition between designing independently and implementing designs from the design team
- Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers and set high code standards. Guide front-end architecture decisions, and champion UI/UX quality at Discord
- Implement Highly Polished UIs: Function as both a thought leader who can craft thoughtful solutions to design problems both independently and in collaboration with dedicated designers. Bring interfaces to life with smooth web animations and delightful interactions, translating design concepts into pixel-perfect, high-quality code
- Front-End Excellence: Write clean, maintainable code in React and React Native, and drive best practices in performance and accessibility for all UI components across web platforms.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Product, Design, and Marketing to define your team's vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding the needs of our users. Seamlessly transition between designing independently and implementing designs from the design team
Other
- Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Portfolio of Work: Required - Ability to showcase specific UI examples of past work including animations, interactions, and visual design – e.g. live demos, GitHub projects, or portfolios demonstrating your front-end and design expertise
- Passion for Discord or online communities
- US-based and can be remote but if you live in the Bay Area, you’re welcome to work from our beautiful SF office.
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
