Senior Software Engineer

Position:
Senior Software Engineer, Growth

Company:
Discord

Compensation:
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,000 + equity + benefits.

Location:
United States, San Francisco Bay Area

Employment type:
Full-time

Work Arrangement:
Not specified

Short Summary:
Discord is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Growth team, focusing on how new users discover, understand, and get started with Discord. This role involves building systems that acquire and activate users at scale.

Responsibilities:
- Build and optimize user-facing experiences that improve how people discover, understand, and get started with Discord
- Develop scalable backend systems that serve dynamic, high-performance content at scale
- Work across the full stack — frontend (TypeScript, React) and backend (Python)
- Design and run A/B experiments to measure the impact of your work on user acquisition and activation
- Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to identify high-impact growth opportunities
- Maintain performance and reliability standards for user-facing properties
- Write code that's readable, reviewable, and built with the next engineer in mind

Requirement:
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong expertise in TypeScript and React
- Practical experience with Python and backend frameworks such as Flask
- Experience designing and running A/B tests with a focus on data-driven decision making
- Comfort working across the full stack and taking ownership of projects end to end

Benefits:
Not specified