Senior Software Engineer, Growth

The role

This role sits on the Growth team, which owns how people first find Discord and get set up after arriving. The engineer works end to end across web surfaces and in-product onboarding, reporting to the senior engineering manager for Growth. The goal is to turn newcomers into engaged community members at large scale.

What you would do

• Build and refine user-facing flows that help newcomers find, understand, and begin using the product
• Create backend services that deliver fast, dynamic content to large audiences
• Move between frontend and backend code as each problem requires
• Plan and run controlled experiments to gauge effects on acquisition and activation
• Collaborate with product, design, and data science to surface and test growth ideas quickly
• Uphold performance and reliability expectations for public-facing properties
• Write maintainable code that other engineers can easily review and extend

What they asked for

• Five or more years of professional software engineering work
• Deep working knowledge of TypeScript and React, with prior high-performance frontend delivery
• Hands-on Python experience with web frameworks such as Flask
• Background designing and analyzing A/B tests to drive decisions
• Comfortable owning projects from start to finish across the stack
• Strong product sense: probes root motivations first and knows when a solution is good enough to ship

Nice to have

• Previous work on growth-oriented engineering teams focused on activation, onboarding, or acquisition
• Experience with search engine optimization infrastructure or familiarity with how LLMs and search engines index web content
• Mobile application development background