Senior Software Engineer - AV Product

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.Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord. This position is US based only. We’re looking for a technical and product-focused engineer to help ideate, implement and launch user-facing audio/video products. The AV org is responsible for voice & video calls and screen sharing; both of which bring people together. You will join a team of engineers working across platforms to build products to improve the Discord call experience. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog.What You'll Be DoingDesign, build and maintain new products in the call experience on our desktop and mobile platforms. Collaborate with engineers on the team and data scientists to understand user behavior & needs and build products to delight users.Advocating for improvements and new features, and prioritizing them on the team’s roadmapWork with analytics, experimentation frameworks, and data science peers to quickly experiment with UX ideas to demonstrate user-facing improvements.Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance.Building delightful products with a very high bar for quality, performance, and a focus on impact. What We Look ForA strong product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback to improve the experience. You can demonstrate a track record of shipping projects from conception to releaseA focus on impact. You have shipped products with clear metrics goals and had a measurable positive impact on customersA sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution. You operate autonomously and follow through on your commitments. An expertise in web development. You have a deep understanding of React, CSS, and Typescript. 4+ years of experienceBonus PointsExperience in video, audio, and/or teleconferencing UXInterest or passion for the Discord platform#LI-RemoteThe US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 to $201,500 + 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.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!Check out our inclusion, diversity and purpose efforts, company principles, or learn more about the Life @ Discord experience!