Discord is looking to enhance the gaming experience on its platform by making it easier and more fun for users to connect, engage, and spend time together while playing video games. The company aims to build new features and provide tooling for developers to enrich these gaming-related social experiences.
Requirements
- Experience with React/TS, Python or other modern programming languages.
- Experience working on a mobile native stack (iOS / Obj-C / Swift), Android (Java, Kotlin)
- Experience integrating or deploying on Steam (or similar platforms)
- Experience using Epic Games Online Services, Steamworks API, Playfab
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain features that help users connect and make friends through gaming on our platform, across desktop and mobile.
- Engage with developers, game studios and other partners to find opportunities and address challenges towards providing a more rich experience for players while gaming and engaging with online communities.
- Collaborate with Engineers, Designers, Product Owners, and Data Scientists to build engaging, fun, and trusted experiences, while experimenting and iterating on ideas that enhance user interactions.
- Partner with our Content, Marketing and ML teams to improve ranking and discovery systems, enabling users to find meaningful connections and relevant content.
- Build innovative features that help users discover new friendships and deepen existing ones, creating a trusted and welcoming environment.
Other
- You have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- You enjoy collaborating with product, design and other stakeholders.
- You should be able to express opinions and stay aligned.
- You take a holistic approach to problem solving.
- You have experience leading projects, gathering requirements, supporting partners and mentoring others.
- You believe in ‘lead by example’ with regards to ownership, autonomy, quality and impact, and no problem is “not my problem”.
- You are a Discord user and want to make the product better!
