Senior Software Engineer, Client Experience - Discord

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Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Client Experience
Job Location: San Francisco or Remote
Job Listing URL: https://boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/6704325002
Job Description: Discord is looking for a highly technical, empathetic, hands-on, and mission-focused engineer who is passionate about building tools for product engineers. The Client Developer Experience Team creates delightful developer experiences for product engineers to accelerate their ability to build and ship UI products. It supports the development process starting from a writing code, to deploying to production, to monitoring how that code performs across web, mobile, and desktop. You’ll bring your expertise and passion for delivering high quality products to equip an all-star engineering organization with the tools and technology needed to move quickly and iterate on product features that bring millions of people together.

What you'll be doing

Develop tools and frameworks to automate the development, testing, and deployment of Discord’s client applications

Collaborate with product engineering teams, PMs, and designers to understand opportunities to improve their developer experience, design solutions, and get feedback

Help guide the technical direction of the Discord client developer experience team

Stay up-to-date with the latest industry technologies, and leverage that knowledge to continuously improve our developer experience

Support product engineers in using development tooling through documentation, answering questions, and sharing best practices

Participate in an internal “helpdesk rotation” to field questions from other teams and debug breakages

Pushing the limits and evolving the software development lifecycle alongside an evolving Discord.

Coordinate and collaborate with staff engineers and stakeholders across the organization to ensure technical alignment around yours and other’s vision.

What you should have

5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on toolset and client-side development

Expertise in a variety of development tools (CLI tools, build/deployment processes, IDEs, testing frameworks, etc.)

A deep understanding of and experience with modern client-side frameworks and tools (like React, React Native, Typescript, webpack, esbuild, Babel, Wasm, etc.)

Broad experience across many domains and technologies and a fearless attitude when diving into something new.

Ability to independently scope and prioritize tasks on often ambiguous technical projects

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think critically about technical tradeoffs to maximize impact for effort

Precise, kind communication skills and a collaborative attitude

Strategic appreciation for creating and maintaining documentation

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $190,000 to $204,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

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Benefits and Perks

Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)

Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends

16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days

Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)

Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)

Volunteer time off

A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups

Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!