Senior full-stack engineer on Discord's Growth team building and optimizing user discovery, onboarding, and activation experiences across frontend (TypeScript/React) and backend (Python) to drive user acquisition at scale. Requires 3+ years shipping web products, strong React/TypeScript expertise, Python/Flask experience, and A/B testing skills.
196k – 220k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEFullstack Engineering
About the role
What you'll be doing
Build and optimize user-facing experiences that improve how people discover, understand, and get started with Discord
Develop scalable backend systems that serve dynamic, high-performance content at scale
Work across the full stack — frontend (TypeScript, React) and backend (Python) — wherever the problem leads
Design and run A/B experiments to measure the impact of your work on user acquisition and activation
Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to identify high-impact growth opportunities and iterate quickly
Maintain performance and reliability standards for user-facing properties
Write code that's readable, reviewable, and built with the next engineer in mind
What you should have
3+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production web products
Strong expertise in TypeScript and React with a track record of delivering high-performance frontend experiences
Practical experience with Python and backend frameworks such as Flask
Experience designing and running A/B tests with a focus on data-driven decision making
Comfort working across the full stack and taking ownership of projects end to end
A habit of asking why before asking how — and the judgment to know when good enough ships and when it doesn't
Bonus points
Prior experience on growth-focused engineering teams working on activation, onboarding, or acquisition
Experience building SEO infrastructure, or interest in how LLMs and search engines index and surface web content
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