About the position
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 are looking for a highly technical, creative, hands-on, and impact-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Ads team. Our team is revolutionizing the way users interact with our platform through innovative ad formats (including Quests). We are driven by a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences while scaling our platform to new heights. These products enable us to generate revenue by building a win-win-win suite of distribution tools for game developers, players, and Discord. Join us in shaping the future of digital advertising and marketplace interactions!
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure from the backend to frontend.
- Collaborate with both engineers on and off the team - from Revenue Infrastructure, to Core Tech, to Machine Learning, to Data Science.
- Be a strategic partner with engineering, product, and cross functional leadership in designing, developing and scaling digital advertising features that drive revenue growth and enhance user engagement.
- Architect simple and maintainable systems to enable us to launch quickly and iterate while sustaining a high product and technical quality bar.
- Model strong ownership by acting autonomously when possible and looping in others to build confidence on critical questions.
- Introduce coding and operational best practices to the team; always be learning & teaching.
- Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance.
Requirements
- A focus on impact. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great.
- A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution.
- A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes.
- A love of mentorship. Helping fellow engineers, providing feedback and guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs.
- Domain knowledge. We’re looking for engineers with experience in the ad delivery space.
- 4+ years of experience, with 2 years in relevant roles.
Nice-to-haves
- Expertise with Typescript, React, React Native, Python and/or Rust.
- Familiarity with experimentation and analysis.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Interest or passion for the Discord platform.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Equity.
