Staff Software Engineer - Consumer Revenue

Role overview

Staff Software Engineer - Consumer Revenue at Discord

Accelerate growth of existing revenue streams while laying the foundation for new monetization opportunities across surfaces like Nitro, Shop, Boosting, and User Identity.

Responsibilities

• You'll work across surfaces like Nitro, Shop, Server Boosting, and User Identity to build a premium Discord that delivers real value to subscribers without compromising the core experience for our free users.
• Own complex initiatives end to end by partnering with Product to refine requirements, create technical specs, and work closely with Design to execute and deliver best-in-class user experiences.
• Collaborate with Staff Engineers and partners across the organization to drive technical alignment across systems, products, and long-term vision.
• Advise leadership on critical technical considerations tied to engineering excellence and high-impact initiatives, and partner on strategic planning to improve how we build and operate.
• Lead a full-stack engineering work across Web, Android, and iOS, setting the technical bar for your team and helping them achieve it.
• Rapidly prototype new features and synthesize insights through experimentation, thriving in ambiguous problem spaces where the right path isn't always obvious.
• What you should have: 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• You have a track record of leading large initiatives from inception to launch that have had meaningful impact beyond your immediate team.
• Full-stack proficiency.
• You are an expert in React/React Native with a solid grasp of Python backend development.
• We work primarily in the web (React, TypeScript), mobile (React Native, with a small amount of Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift), and backend (Python).
• Product sense.
• You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work.
• You have an eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great.
• Technical leadership.
• You help teams move with clarity and purpose, translating ambiguous goals into executable roadmaps and creating the conditions for engineers around you to do their best work.
• Ownership mentality.
• You thrive with autonomy, take initiative to drive projects forward, and are comfortable with ambiguity.
• Holistic approach to problem solving.
• You solve from first principles rather than reaching for the nearest solution.
• You think about the full system, learn from mistakes, and bring the team along with you.
• Performance-focused mindset.
• You have a solid understanding of React performance and client-server performance optimization, and a commitment to maintaining high-performance standards.
• Growth mindset.
• You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes.
• You push yourself and those around you to continuously improve.
• Bonus points: Growth and monetization experience.
• You have worked on teams focused on revenue generation, product monetization, or user engagement systems, with a history of attracting new users, driving engagement, sustaining long-term retention, and optimizing monetization outcomes.
• Experimentation and data driven decision making.
• You have a strong track record of driving measurable impact through structured experimentation and letting data guide your conclusions.
• Optimization at scale.
• You have experience identifying and solving bottlenecks in consumer-facing applications with large, active user bases.
• Passion for Discord.
• You use the platform, care about the community, and are motivated by the idea of making Discord better for everyone on it.
• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + 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, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
• 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!
• Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
• We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
• Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

Employment details

• Location: Remote

About the employer

• Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games.
• You’ll be supported by infrastructure, platform, and product teams on your mission to build the best premium Discord Check out some of our recent launches on Nitro , Shop , Server Boosting , User Identity , and more .

Additional role details

• Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
• The Consumer Revenue org sits at the center of how we build a sustainable business around that community.
• We're looking for a talented Staff Engineer to join teams working across premium experiences and core user identity, shaping the technical strategy that ties it all together.
• In this full-stack product engineering role , you'll collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Design, Marketing, and other functions to create best-in-class consumer experiences.
• Your work will cover the full breadth of the technical stack, from backend data modeling, through business logic in APIs, to polished, user-facing interfaces.
• To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog !