Staff Engineer, Consumer Revenue

Salary: $248,000 - $279,000 + equity + benefits (US base salary) Location Type: US Based Only Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

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.

We’re looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-focused Staff Engineer to help scale our technology and revenue driving products. You will help oversee the technical roadmap across our Consumer Revenue org. You will work with teams across the organization such as Engineering, Product, Data Science, Design and Marketing to ensure that the technical strategy maps to the revenue goals of the team. Come help us scale our platform and products to directly promote the vision of multi-billion dollars in revenue at Discord.

Responsibilities

• Focus on accelerating growth of existing revenue streams while laying the foundation for the development of new revenue streams and monetization opportunities.
• Collaborate with staff engineers and partners across the organization to ensure technical agreement to other systems, products and vision.
• Use your technical expertise to constantly improve and ensure your team achieves extraordinary results at the high technical level we set.
• Partner with Product, Design, Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Success to ship new initiatives that unlock revenue streams.
• Advise the leadership team on essential technical considerations related to ensuring engineering excellence and successful high impact key initiatives.

Requirements

• 7+ years of industry experience as a software engineer.
• Solid understanding of the development frameworks and fundamentals of one or more of our platforms:
  • Web (React, TypeScript)
  • Android (React Native, Kotlin)
  • iOS (React Native, Objective-C, Swift)
  • Backend (Python and some Elixir)
• Experience leading large initiatives from inception to launch.
• Experience building and shipping product features, especially for products at large scale or in real-time applications.
• A strong sense for product and design, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional peers (product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers) and express opinions to create great products.
• A holistic approach to problem-solving, believing in solving problems from first principles, learning from mistakes, and working through obstacles with the team.

Company Information

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

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