Key skills
Backend developmentPythonPayments/fintech experienceFrontend technologiesReactTypeScriptProduct senseLove for experimentationIntegrating with StripeIntegrating with AdyenIntegrating with BraintreeGrowth mindsetiOSAndroidCustomer Success
About this role
Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people each month, primarily for gaming. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Revenue group, focusing on building and optimizing the payments system to enhance their business growth while keeping core functionalities free.
Responsibilities:
- Work with engineers on the team to build the checkout and payments system that underpins Discord’s existing business lines, and enable new revenue streams across Web, Android, and iOS
- Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product to refine requirements, creating a technical spec, implementing changes, and seeing the project through to launch
- Work on projects to expand our payment method coverage and optimize our checkout funnel
- Integrate with 3rd party payment gateways and other vendors to support our purchase flows
- Support product teams by evolving our multi-tenant payments platform to enable new monetization features and product lines
- Partner with Product, Finance and Customer Success to improve processes and workflows. Deliver experiments on new workflows / systems and iterate based on feedback
- Work closely with Safety and Fraud operations teams to implement new fraud mitigations
- Improve reliability, observability, and stability of Discord’s billing system
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Deep expertise in backend development (Python); working knowledge of frontend technologies (React, TypeScript) to contribute across the full stack when needed
- You have a growth mindset. You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to continuously improve
- You have a product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work
- You love experimentation. You get excited when numbers move by 1%
- Experience working in the payments/fintech domain
- Experience integrating with Stripe, Adyen, and/or Braintree