Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Social Commerce

About the role

This role focuses on developing social commerce features for Discord's platform, specifically creating cross-platform purchase flows and social gifting experiences. The goal is to integrate in-game digital goods transactions directly into Discord's social environment, allowing players to buy and gift items within chat, DMs, and game communities. This involves working with game studio partners to ensure seamless integration and enhance the gaming experience for millions of users.

The Social Commerce team launched recently and has already seen success with its initial product. As a senior engineer, you will lead projects from scoping through design, building, shipping, and iteration, using experiment results to guide development. This position requires a full-stack approach, contributing to various parts of the system to deliver scalable and elegant code.

Success in this role means continually raising the quality of the software, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and game developers to navigate product ambiguity. You will be instrumental in shaping a new product area where the development playbook is still being written, requiring a proactive and adaptable approach to problem-solving and feature delivery.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $196,000 and $220,500, not including equity or benefits.

Skills that matter here

• Python: This role requires expertise in Python as part of the core tech stack for backend development.
• Typescript: Expertise in Typescript is needed for front-end development, likely in conjunction with React.
• React: This role utilizes React for building user interfaces and front-end components.
• Elixir: Expertise in Elixir is part of the required tech stack, indicating its use in specific system components.
• Rust: This position requires expertise in Rust, suggesting its application in performance-critical or systems-level programming.

Who this role suits

• A person who thrives on leading projects through their entire lifecycle, from initial concept to post-launch iteration.
• Someone comfortable switching between different tech stacks or quickly learning new ones to meet project needs.
• An individual who possesses a strong sense for product and design, actively collaborating with cross-functional teams rather than working in isolation.
• A candidate who embraces ambiguity and experimentation, preferring to ship A/B tests and iterate based on results rather than waiting for fully defined specifications.

From the employer

What You’ll Be Doing

• Building cross-platform purchase flows, social gifting experiences, and commerce surfaces that meet users where they already are — in voice, in chat, on mobile.
• Collaborating with the other engineers on your team to write, review, and ship elegant and scalable code.
• Leading projects through the whole life cycle: scoping, designing, building, shipping, and iterating based on experiment results.
• 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.
• Working with product managers, designers, and partner managers to cut through ambiguity and find the way forward.
• Using your attention to detail to continually raise the quality bar of the software we write.

What you should have:

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer.
• Expertise with at least a couple parts of our tech stack: Python, Typescript/React, Elixir, Rust being the main areas.
• You are comfortable switching across stacks or learning new ones.
• You have a sense for product and design. We don’t operate in silos, and you’ll be collaborating closely with cross-functional peers.
• You should be able to express opinions and collaborate to make something great.
• Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation. This team ships A/B tests, reads results, and changes direction. You should be someone who thrives in that environment rather than waiting for a fully-baked spec.
• You actively leverage AI coding tools to accelerate your productivity.

[Optional] Bonus Points

• Experience with game development.
• Experience with mobile development.
• Experience leveraging a cloud platform (GCP, Amazon, or Azure) to serve as the backend infrastructure for a product.

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