Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

10 Hours ago • 4 Years + • $196,000 PA - $220,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Design Systems team, you will work with engineers and designers to build and maintain the design system (Mana), including design tokens, components, and code patterns. You will create accessible components for all platforms, develop internal tools like Figma plugins, and provide guidance on using design system components. Responsibilities also include creating prototypes, using research and data to inform reasoning, and implementing new ideas. The role involves collaborating with staff-level engineers and reviewing code and designs.
Must have:
  • 4+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 1+ years experience working on a design system.
  • Expertise with web (React, TypeScript) or mobile development.
  • Deep understanding of accessibility in user interfaces.
  • Strong written communication and documentation skills.
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams.

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.

This position is US based only.

The Design Systems team is a cross-functional team that ensures design quality across all facets of UI, content, and graphics. We develop the core primitives and standards that engineers and designers use to build Discord’s products. Designers and engineers on this team collaborate closely to accelerate product feature teams’ ability to ship new features with UI that are accessible, consistent, and high quality. This team also sets the standard for accessibility on Discord, and supports other engineering teams in achieving it. As such, the Design Systems team plays a critical role enabling Discord to achieve its core mission: creating a space for everyone to find belonging.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Working closely with our engineers and designers to build and maintain our design system, Mana, (design tokens, components, and other code patterns) and improve it over time.
  • Authoring beautiful, accessible components that work across all our supported platforms (iOS, Android, desktop, and web).
  • Building internal tools like Figma plugins, codemods, and lint rules to empower all of our engineers and designers to use the design system to the fullest extent.
  • Providing guidance to teams on the best way to use design systems components and tools across their projects through pairing and documentation.
  • Create interactive prototypes to communicate your work. Use user research and data to inform your reasoning
  • Inspire the entire team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table and implementing them as next-generation product primitives.
  • Working with Staff+ level engineers to grow your skills and aptitudes.
  • Reviewing code and designs

What you should have

  • 4+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools.
  • 1+ years experience working on a design system.
  • Expertise with web (React, TypeScript) or mobile (React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin) client-focused development. We're a cross-platform team and believe that engineers should be empowered to work across a variety of tech stacks. We'll support you in learning the stacks you don't know!
  • A deep understanding of accessibility and its application in creating robust user interfaces.
  • Strong, clear written communication skills and a healthy appreciation for good documentation.
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams with designers or product managers.
  • Willingness and excitement to learn new technical skills and expand your toolkit.
  • A consistent track record of delivering multi-milestone projects on time and at a high level.
  • Experience safely migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical patterns at scale.


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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 - $220,500 + 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. 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

Founded in 2015, Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests - from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.


And we're hiring! If this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us: https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.

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