Discord este o platformă de comunicare pentru crearea și participarea la comunități online, cu o legătură puternică cu jocurile și interacțiunea socială. Produsele sale aduc oamenii împreună prin chat text, vocal și video pe computer, dispozitive mobile și console, iar funcții precum streamingul, emoji-urile personalizate, autocolantele și panourile de sunet ajută comunitățile să creeze experiențe comune. Discord dezvoltă, de asemenea, instrumente de siguranță și moderare menite să sprijine spații primitoare și bine gestionate. Compania activează la intersecția dintre jocuri, tehnologie socială și servicii digitale axate pe comunități.
Engineering Manager, Notifications at Discord
Lead Discord’s notifications engineering team and platform, supporting reliable, scalable services and infrastructure. Improve re-engagement through experimentation while helping the gaming community stay connected.
Descriere
- Lead full-stack engineers developing and operating Discord’s notifications platform across Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Set technical direction for notification systems and scale them reliably as volume and complexity increase.
- Work with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to shape and deliver the notifications roadmap.
- Apply experiments and metrics to improve engagement, retention, and long-term user trust.
- Hire and coach engineers, building a strong team and promoting sound engineering practices.
- Collaborate with teams across Discord to evolve shared platform primitives for reaching users.
- Work with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvements.
- Report to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth.
Cerințe
- At least five years as a software engineer, including substantial experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems at scale.
- At least two years of engineering management experience.
- Comfort owning production systems using technologies such as Elixir, Python, pubsub or streaming pipelines, and Kubernetes, with strong judgment around reliability, throughput, and cost at scale.
- Experience partnering closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to define and ship solutions.
- A record of helping engineers grow and succeed.
- Strong ownership and the ability to explain technical decisions in depth.
- Ability to promote 80/20 thinking, rapid iteration, and high-quality delivery.
- Bonus: Experience leading shared platforms or primitives.
- Bonus: Experience delivering push notifications or consumer-scale re-engagement systems, including deliverability, throttling, and policy considerations.
- Bonus: Full-stack experience spanning frontend and backend development.
- Bonus: Demonstrated impact through experimentation and data-informed decisions.
- Bonus: Success improving engagement and long-term retention through messaging or re-engagement surfaces.
- Understanding of the gaming industry.
- Familiarity with Discord’s core communication features and user flows.
Beneficii
- Equity.
- Benefits.
- Reasonable accommodations during the interview process.