Staff Software Engineer - Social Commerce

Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming. The Social Commerce team is developing a storefront for game developers to sell directly to players on Discord, focusing on creating social and contextual purchasing experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Building cross-platform purchase flows, social gifting experiences, and commerce surfaces that meet users where they already are — in voice, in chat, on mobile
• Owning projects end-to-end: scoping, designing, building, shipping, and iterating based on experiment results
• You'll run A/B tests, read the data, and make the call on what to do next
• Working directly with game studio partners to understand their needs, answer technical questions, and improve the tools we build for them
• Collaborating closely with product, design, and game developers to cut through ambiguity on a product where the playbook is still being written
• Partnering with other product teams to design shared commerce primitives that work across Discord
• Raising the bar for the engineers around you through code review, technical design input, and leading by example on quality and ownership

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including experience leading cross-functional projects as an individual contributor
• Strong expertise in at least a couple of the major parts of our stack: Python and TypeScript/React
• Comfortable switching between stacks and have a track record of picking up new ones quickly
• A product sense that goes beyond implementation
• Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation
• A bias toward solving problems from first principles
• Experience with React Native for mobile development
• Experience with game development or game platform ecosystems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) for production backend systems