Discord is looking to accelerate its growth by enabling sophisticated e-commerce browsing and content promotion experiences to grow its business while keeping Discord's core functionality free.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- We primarily work in the backend (Python), but we also do some frontend work (React, Typescript). You have a background with a similar emphasis on backend development
- Domain experience in the e-commerce platform world: product catalogs, content management, marketplaces, pricing, promotional offers, and discounts
Responsibilities
- Work with other backend-focused engineers to build new capabilities related to e-commerce capabilities: product discovery, SKU management, content recommendations, promotions, etc
- Own problems end to end — through defining technical specifications, implementing changes, and launch.
- Partner with Product, Design, CX, Data Science, and feature teams across the company to evolve Discord’s commerce platform and expand its capabilities
- Provide feature teams with tools and platform support needed to spin up new monetization products
- Improve the reliability, observability, and stability of Discord’s commerce systems
Other
- A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to continuously improve
- Product and platform sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for both your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work.
- 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).
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- For this role, there is no formal requirement to work from the office.
