Staff Software Engineer, Core Product

About Discord and the Core Product Team

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 highly motivated, mission-focused Staff Engineer to join our Core Product team. Core Product is responsible for improving the core value of Discord – everything from chatting with friends, hanging out on voice, and gaming with others. We build all the core experiences within Discord with the goal of making Discord the best place to hang out with your friends and, in doing so, grow the number of people who love using Discord. You will work across the full stack to build delightful and impactful features that are focused on making Discord the best place to play games and hangout with your friends online.

In this role, you will lead the creation of new features, improve our existing features, and help make our product successful on web and mobile. We’re looking for someone who is comfortable working across the React frontend, Python backend, and jumping into our Elixir backend and native clients when needed. If you love creating great experiences and driving impact, we’d love to hear from you.

What You Will Be Doing

• Building delightful products with a very high bar for quality, performance, and a focus on impact
• Working with Product, Design, Data Science, UX Research, and Marketing to shape the team’s vision and roadmap
• Helping find the right solutions that balance delight, speed of delivery and impact by collaborating with design and product partners
• Impact focused – you thrive on delivering user value and driving company metrics
• A strong ownership and growth mindset – you believe in owning outcomes and reflecting on every project to learn how you can improve

What You Should Have

• 8+ years of development building rich, user-centric applications (web and mobile).
• Expertise in React: You have built complex applications, and understand React’s ecosystem/libraries deeply.
• Strong UX sensibility: You have an eye for detail and have implemented polished interfaces and animations (bonus if you’ve used libraries like Reanimated).
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Fearlessness navigating technical stacks and contributing wherever the need arises.
• A deep understanding of Discord, we’re looking for people who are highly active users and understand the product well.

Bonus Points

• Experience with React Native and/or mobile development
• Design Systems Experience: Proven track record of building or maintaining a design system or reusable UI component library at scale. You understand design tokens, theming, and how to create components that are flexible and extensible.
• Passion for Discord or online communities

Location and Compensation

This position is US-based and can be remote but if you live in the Bay Area, you’re welcome to work from our beautiful SF office.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + 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.

Why Discord?

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