# Senior Software Engineer - Web Platform

**Company:** [Discord](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/discord)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $196k – $221k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Rust, webpack, Eslint, Prettier, CI/CD, React Native
**Posted:** 2026-02-04

> Senior engineer builds and maintains JavaScript build systems, tooling, and developer workflows for Discord's frontend across platforms. Requires 3+ years in JS/Node.js ecosystem and multi-language familiarity.

## Job Description

## What You'll Be Doing
- Building and maintaining tools, pipelines, and processes for fast, safe, reliable frontend development.
- Becoming an expert in JavaScript tooling to help teams solve development problems.
- Refactoring and upgrading the codebase to reduce tech debt and improve maintainability.
- Writing custom tools for Discord’s frontend projects.
- Optimizing bundlers, linters, formatters, editor plugins, and more.

## What You Have
- 3+ years working with JavaScript tools and Node.js ecosystem.
- Familiarity with multiple languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Go, Swift).
- Experience developing/maintaining CLI tools and packages in JavaScript.
- Strong sense for maintainable, well-documented code.
- Understanding of frontend development tools and their interactions.

## Bonus Points
- Familiarity with localization in frontend applications.
- Experience with React Native, Metro, Hermes, and JS-native bridging.
- Maintaining/writing plugins for bundlers, linters, formatters.
- CI/CD orchestration, Cloudflare Workers, cloud storage, deployment processes.

## Compensation
US base salary range: $196,000 - $220,500 + equity + benefits.

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