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Engineering Manager, Core Product

United StatesRemoteFull TimeManager / Head$248,000–$310,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Core Product Engagement team to lead a group of full-stack engineers. This role involves shaping the future of Discord by building key features that enhance user connection and experience. The ideal candidate will collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing partners, drive team vision and roadmap, and make strategic decisions. While primarily a management role, leaders are expected to be comfortable with hands-on coding and technical problem-solving. The position requires 5+ years of software engineering experience across the stack and 2+ years of experience managing teams of 5 or more engineers building user-facing products. A strong product sense and customer focus are essential. Experience with social or messaging consumer products and React Native are considered bonuses. This US-based role can be remote, with an office option in San Francisco.

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.

Join our Core Product Engagement team to shape the future of Discord and help build the key features that make Discord delightful and help people connect every day with their friends. We’re looking for someone who is highly driven, goal oriented, and growth minded to lead a team of full stack engineers. In this role you’ll be collaborating closely with your product, design and data partners. You’ll also have the opportunity to wear many hats – writing code, pulling data, and driving products forward.

We’re a small and mighty team where you’ll have serious ownership of the core experiences Discord offers. This specific team helps improve the core experience and build the foundations that help every Discord user be successful and connect with their friends and community!

What you'll be doing

  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, UX Research, and Marketing to drive your team’s vision and roadmap
  • Make sound first-principle decisions around resourcing, and making the rationale clear to partners and team members
  • Partner with your org leader on strategic planning and to improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy
  • Helping drive product decisions with our goals in mind and holding a high bar for the quality of our features
  • Use your technical expertise to move fast, make tradeoffs, and ensure your team delivers with high quality

    • What you should have

  • You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord
  • You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, working across the stack (mobile, web, backend) building user experiences
  • You have 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading teams of 5 or more engineers building user facing products
  • You have a product sense and take pride in understanding your customers
  • You have worked in a product team with clear metrics goals
  • You are very goal oriented and always strive to win
  • You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience growing engineers
  • You are excited to get hands-on – we’re looking for someone to manage primarily but our leaders should feel very comfortable jumping into code to understand our product better, brainstorming technical solutions, and making changes directly.

    • Bonus Points

  • You have worked on a social or messaging consumer product
  • You have experience with React Native

    • This position is US-based and can be remote but if you live in the Bay Area, you’re welcome to work from our beautiful SF office.

    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. 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.

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    • 2

      Implement a system for live processing of customer reviews and feedback.

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    • 3

      Build a Discord-like Chat Server

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    • 4

      Find the minimum path sum from top-left to bottom-right in a grid. Input: grid = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] Output: 12 Explanation: The optimal path moves along 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 6, resulting in a minimum accumulated sum of 12.

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