Senior Software Engineer, Apps

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. 

Apps on Discord are the way for external developers to build innovative experiences on Discord in the form of bots, activities and more. We are a small team responsible for developing both the building blocks developers can use to create these experiences as well as supporting the ecosystem in which users engage with these applications.

Apps play a huge part in Discord's mission of creating a new kind of place where it’s easy to genuinely communicate, have fun hanging out, and build relationships.  We believe developers are the future of Discord and have exciting plans ahead. Come join us and help build the future of our platform󠀡!

What You'll Be Doing

• Work on developing APIs, SDKs, UI Components and other primitives which external developers will use to build Apps with
• Collaborate with design, product, data science and other engineers to introduce new features used by our +180M monthly active users
• Be active in supporting our large public developer community on Discord
• Participate at all levels of ideation, implementation and release

You Will Thrive In This Role If

• 5+ years experience as a full-stack engineer with familiarity working in web and backend stacks.
• Experience with designing and maintaining APIs.
• A focus on impact. Developers building on Discord are a vibrant and productive community, but we have a long way to go! You want to work with engineers, product managers, designers, and the external dev community to define great solutions to ambiguous problems.
• Attention to detail and an eye for visuals. You care about shipping high quality experiences for our developers and users.
• A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to improve
• A strong sense of shared ownership. You don’t believe that anything is someone else’s problem and are willing to explore unfamiliar parts of the tech stack to understand how it works and develop new expertise

Bonus Points

• Experience building or using apps on Discord
• Experience building for a developer ecosystem.
• Familiarity with React, React Native, TypeScript, Python, or Rust

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 to $201,500 + 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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