Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.
Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.
We’re looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Senior Software Engineer to help us build the next generation of social gaming features on Discord. You will drive the technical solutions for new products that makes Discord the best place to discover and talk about games with your friends. You’ll work with functions across the Discovery organization such as Engineering, Product, Data Science, Design and Machine Learning to build a best in class social experience. You will be reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager of Activity Feed.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Collaborate with leads and senior engineers on the team to drive projects on Activity Feed.
- Provide feedback on the work of other engineers and mentor junior team members to learn and grow.
- Partner with Product, Design, Marketing, Partnerships, and Machine Learning to prototype, test, and release new features.
- Drive technical excellence through direct and indirect contributions. Maintain a sharp focus on the quality of execution and deliver pixel perfect experiences to users.
- Partner with leadership on strategic planning and improve our processes while upholding our workplace philosophy.
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