Staff Software Engineer – UI/UX & Animations

3 Months ago • 8 Years + • UI/UX Design • $248,000 PA - $279,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer focusing on UI/UX & Animations, you will be responsible for creating beautiful and intuitive user interfaces across Discord's web and mobile platforms. You will lead the implementation of highly polished UIs, ensuring smooth animations and delightful interactions. This role involves writing clean and maintainable code using React and React Native, driving best practices in performance and accessibility. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Marketing teams, define team vision, and mentor engineers, and set high code standards. The ideal candidate should be passionate about front-end engineering, design, and user experience. The job posting emphasizes the importance of building stunning UIs with a broad global impact.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of front-end development experience.
  • Expertise in React and React Native.
  • Strong UI/UX sensibility and passion for design.
  • Portfolio of work showcasing UI examples.
  • Knowledge of front-end performance optimizations and accessibility.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Good to have:
  • Design Systems experience.
  • Passion for Discord or online communities.
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.

This position is US based only. 

Join our team as a Staff Software Engineer focused on UI/UX & Animations. In this role, you will lead the creation of beautiful, intuitive user interfaces across Discord’s web and mobile platforms. We’re looking for someone with deep expertise in React and React Native who is passionate about design and animations, is excited to build world-class user experiences, and is comfortable navigating the entire technical stack. This role reports to one of our engineering leaders on our Core Product team. If you love crafting pixel-perfect UI, seamless user experiences, and scalable front-end architecture, we'd love to hear from you!

We encourage candidates who are passionate about front-end engineering, design, and user experience to apply. If you love building stunning UIs and want to make a broad impact, this role offers the opportunity to do just that at a global scale.

What you will be doing

  • Implement Highly Polished UIs: Function as both a thought leader who can craft thoughtful solutions to design problems both independently and in collaboration with dedicated designers . Bring interfaces to life with smooth animations and delightful interactions translating design concepts into pixel-perfect, high-quality code
  • Front-End Excellence: Write clean, maintainable code in React and React Native, and drive best practices in performance and accessibility for all UI components.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Product, Design, and Marketing to define your team's vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding the needs of our users. Seamlessly transition between designing independently and implementing designs from the design team.
  • Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers and set high code standards. Guide front-end architecture decisions, and champion UI/UX quality at Discord.

What you should have

  • 8+ years of front-end development experience building rich, user-centric applications (web and/or mobile).
  • Expertise in React and React Native: You have built complex applications in both, and understand their ecosystems/libraries deeply.
  • Strong UI/UX sensibility: Passion for great design and user experience. You have an eye for detail and have implemented polished interfaces and animations (bonus if you’ve used libraries like Reanimated).
  • Portfolio of Work: Ability to showcase specific UI examples of past work – e.g. live demos, GitHub projects, or portfolios demonstrating your front-end and design expertise.
  • Performance & Accessibility: Extensive knowledge of front-end performance optimizations and web/mobile accessibility standards like WCAG. You ensure that your UIs are not only beautiful but also fast and usable for everyone.
  • Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Bonus Points

  • Design Systems Experience: Proven track record of building or maintaining a design system or reusable UI component library at scale. You understand design tokens, theming, and how to create components that are flexible and extensible.
  • Passion for Discord or online communities

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + equity + 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

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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