Senior Software Engineer, Ads

undefined ago • 4 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $196,000 PA - $220,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Discord is used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming, with users spending 1.5 billion hours on thousands of titles. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our Ads team to revolutionize user interaction through innovative ad formats like Quests. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining new Ads products and infrastructure, collaborating with various engineering and product teams. You will architect scalable systems, drive revenue growth, and enhance user engagement. Discord plays a crucial role in the future of gaming, helping people connect and deepen friendships. Join us to shape the future of digital advertising and contribute to a platform that makes gaming more fun and social.
Must have:
  • Design, build, and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Revenue Infrastructure, Core Tech, ML, and Data Science.
  • Partner with leadership to design, develop, and scale digital advertising features.
  • Architect simple, maintainable systems for quick launches and high quality.
  • Demonstrate strong ownership, acting autonomously and building confidence.
  • Introduce coding and operational best practices; foster continuous learning.
  • Own projects end-to-end, from requirements to launch and maintenance.
Good to have:
  • Typescript
  • React
  • React Native
  • Python
  • Rust
  • Experimentation and analysis
  • Open-source contributions
  • Interest in Discord platform
Perks:
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

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!

To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog!

What you'll be doing

  • 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.

What you should have

  • A focus on impact. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems.
  • A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution. You operate autonomously and follow through on your commitments.
  • A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to continuously improve.
  • 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.

Bonus Points

  • 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

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. 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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About The Company

Discord is a voice, video and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games and have fun. When Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy founded Discord in 2015 they had a hunch that multiplayer gaming would be the future of entertainment and that people would need a communications platform designed for them to talk with their gaming friends. Today, gaming has become the largest form of entertainment in the world, bigger than movies and music combined. It’s the fastest-growing as well. Discord makes it feel like you’re playing in the same room with friends.

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