Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
A Day In The Life
- The Social Commerce team is building a storefront for game developers to sell directly to their players in Discord.
- This is a new initiative that has seen a lot of early success, and we’re expanding it to support more games and platforms.
- But we’re not just building a shop
- Discord is where friends already hang out, play together, and share the things they love.
- We are building commerce experiences that no other platform can: purchasing that’s social, contextual, and embedded in the games people already play and places they already spend time.
- This is a hands-on engineering management role.
- You’ll lead a team of full-stack engineers while staying close to the code yourself — reviewing PRs, debugging production issues, fixing bugs, and occasionally shipping features alongside your team.
- You’ll partner with senior engineers to set technical direction, but you’ll have the context to make tradeoffs because you’re genuinely close to the work.
- If you’re excited to build a new product area from the ground up — and to grow the team building it — this role is for you.
- What you’ll be doing
- Leading and growing engineers.
- Hiring, coaching, and developing a team of full-stack engineers.
- Structuring the team so the right people are in the right roles, placing your strongest technical contributors where they’ll have the most impact, and helping everyone advance their careers.
- Staying hands-on technically.
- Reviewing code, understanding the systems your team owns, and jumping into the codebase when it helps unblock the team or sharpen your judgment.
- You’ll have informed opinions on technical decisions because you’re close to the work.
- Owning outcomes end-to-end.
- Defining and refining the roadmap with your team and XFN partners, breaking down work, setting success metrics, and holding the team accountable for delivering high-quality results.
- For a product this early, that often means orienting around learning goals, not just usage goals.
- Driving pace and focus.
- Setting a strong shipping cadence.
- Fostering 80/20 thinking.
- Helping the team avoid bike-shedding, make decisions without being blocked by consensus, and iterate quickly based on experiment results.
- Removing obstacles.
- Embracing "all problems are my problem." When your team or XFN partners hit a blocker, you help them get unstuck — whether that means escalating, re-scoping, having a hard conversation, or rolling up your sleeves and writing code.
- Working with game studio partners.
- Understanding their needs, answering technical questions, and improving the tools and APIs we build for them — just like the rest of the team.
- Collaborating across Discord.
- Partnering with product, design, data science, and other engineering teams to cut through ambiguity, design shared commerce primitives, and shape a product where the playbook is still being written.
- What you should have
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time as a hands-on IC building production systems.
- 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience (including tech leads and team leads who’ve been managing people and projects without the formal EM title) on user-facing products.
- Strong familiarity with at least a couple of major parts of our stack: Python, TypeScript/React, and mobile with React Native.
- You don’t need to be writing features daily, but you should be able to read, review, and reason about code across these stacks.
- A product sense that goes beyond management.
- You’ll be collaborating with PMs and designers daily, and we need someone who can push back, suggest alternatives, and help shape what we build — not just execute on a spec.
- Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation.
- This team ships A/B tests, reads results, and changes direction.
- You should thrive in that environment and help your team do the same.
- A track record of growing engineers — finding high-leverage roles for people, developing new skills, and providing direct, actionable feedback that makes people better.
- An ownership mentality.
- You resolve blockers for your team and XFN partners, drive decisions, and hold yourself accountable for the team’s results.
- Bonus Points
- Experience with game development or game platform ecosystems.
- Experience with e-commerce, monetization, or revenue-generating products.
- You’re an active Discord user.
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + 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, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
- 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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- We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
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