Senior Software Engineer - Notifications

Discord is seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join the Notifications team. This role involves improving client device experiences, building a platform for sending delightful notifications, and collaborating with Machine Learning engineers to optimize notification signals. The engineer will work across the full stack in a collaborative environment, focusing on operational health, client performance, and balancing user delight with delivery speed and impact. The team is critical for keeping users connected on the platform, especially given Discord's role in gaming communication.

Must Have

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience in teams operating complex infrastructure or unique product needs
• Eager to learn new languages and frameworks, and comfortable working across the full stack when needed
• Worked in team with clear metrics goals and had a measurable positive impact on customers
• Strong product sense and take pride in sweating the details of great UX
• Motivated to help your team members succeed, grow, and learn from each other through empathetic feedback
• Expertise in Python, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin and/or other languages involved in notifications development

Good to Have

• Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications
• Previously built a notifications orchestration system

Perks & Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits

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're looking for a highly motivated, mission-focused Senior Software Engineer to join the Notifications team at Discord. Notifications are a business critical function for helping users remain connected on our platform. The Notifications squad is a multidiscipline group of engineers that work across user experiences, infrastructure, and machine learning problems to ensure notifications from Discord are high signal and high value at all times.

We’re looking for a full stack data-driven engineer with strong product sense to join our team. As a member of Notifications, you will work in a highly collaborative environment to tackle complex problems on every part of the stack.

What You'll Be Doing

• Improve client device experiences for receiving notifications and tailoring notification preferences
• Build the platform that enables all other teams in the company to send delightful notifications while delivering the maximum value to our users.
• Pair with Machine Learning engineers to optimize global notification signals and quality.
• Maintain a high quality bar for our platform’s operational health and client performance
• Pair with Product and Design leads to find the right solutions that balance delight, speed of delivery and impact

What you should have

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• You have experience in teams operating complex infrastructure or unique product needs
• You are eager to learn new languages and frameworks, and are comfortable working across the full stack when needed
• You’ve worked in team with clear metrics goals and had a measurable positive impact on customers
• You have a strong product sense and take pride in sweating the details of great UX
• You are motivated to help your team members succeed, grow, and learn from each other through empathetic feedback
• Expertise in Python, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin and/or other languages involved in notifications development

Bonus Points

• You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications
• You have previously built a notifications orchestration system

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!