Senior Software Engineer - Design Systems

April 11

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $196k - $220.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Discord is a communication platform designed for creating communities. Users can chat via text, voice, or video, and the platform is known for its emphasis on gaming. It provides customized experiences with features like custom emojis, stickers, and soundboard effects. Discord supports seamless streaming with high quality and low latency, making it ideal for gamers to hang out and play games together online. It is accessible across various devices including PC, phone, and console. Additionally, Discord places a high priority on safety and moderation, offering resources and guidelines for keeping communities safe and engaging. It is widely used for social interactions, gaming, and community building.

Video Games • Text Chat • VOIP

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🎮 Gaming

🌍 Social Impact

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $12G Venture Round on 2022-03

📋 Description

• Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons. • The Design Systems team is a cross-functional team that ensures design quality across all facets of UI, content, and graphics. • We develop the core primitives and standards that engineers and designers use to build Discord’s products. • Designers and engineers on this team collaborate closely to accelerate product feature teams’ ability to ship new features with UI that are accessible, consistent, and high quality. • This team also sets the standard for accessibility on Discord, and supports other engineering teams in achieving it. • The Design Systems team plays a critical role enabling Discord to achieve its core mission: creating a space for everyone to find belonging. • Working closely with our engineers and designers to build and maintain our design system, Mana. • Authoring beautiful, accessible components that work across all our supported platforms. • Building internal tools like Figma plugins, codemods, and lint rules. • Providing guidance to teams on the best way to use design systems components and tools across their projects. • Create interactive prototypes to communicate your work.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools. • 1+ years experience working on a design system. • Expertise with web (React, TypeScript) or mobile (React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin) client-focused development. • A deep understanding of accessibility and its application in creating robust user interfaces. • Strong, clear written communication skills and a healthy appreciation for good documentation. • Experience working on cross-functional teams with designers or product managers. • Willingness and excitement to learn new technical skills and expand your toolkit. • A consistent track record of delivering multi-milestone projects on time and at a high level. • Experience safely migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical patterns at scale.

🏖️ Benefits

• equity • benefits