Director, Engineering (Client & Performance)

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San Francisco, CA
Senior level
Software
Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to talk and hang out.
The Role
The Director of Engineering will lead teams focusing on core client experience and mobile performance at Discord. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching engineers, improving user engagement metrics, and managing processes while collaborating across the business. The role aims to drive meaningful performance and quality goals in the mobile experience, influencing the future of the gaming platform.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading teams responsible for the underlying building blocks of our core experience — the client itself. With a charter that spans from the tooling to the native code to the foundational React software, across all of the platforms we target, the teams here are shipping meaningful, business impacting code every day. In 2025, you will focus heavily on our mobile experience, driving top line growth and helping create international opportunities for the business in 2026 and beyond.

You will report to our VP of Core Technology and have significant leadership and influence on the evolution of Discord's overall Engineering organization.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Build and lead multiple teams of highly-engaged managers and engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.
  • Collaborate with peers across the business to drive meaningful business impact in user engagement metrics by delivering on mobile performance and quality goals.
  • Work with best-in-class talent, inside and outside of Discord, to set the bar for what is possible with React Native.
  • Drive public perception by working with teams like Marketing and Comms to talk about the work your teams are doing.
  • Manage processes and use your technical expertise to continually improve the team and ensure your team achieves extraordinary results.
  • Work with other Directors to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy.

What you should have

  • You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and have maintained technical depth as a leader.
  • You have 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed groups of 3+ Engineering Managers and 15+ Software Engineers.
  • You have 2+ years of experience managing other Managers.
  • You enjoy coming up with pragmatic solutions to concrete problems using first principles thinking.
  • You deeply understand mobile performance and React Native and are excited by the challenge of delivering an incredible product to 200 million users.
  • You are passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but secretly love getting elbow deep in architecture design when the opportunities arise.
  • You keep up with the industry trends and identify new tools to use to solve technical problems — and are excited to push the envelope.

Bonus Points

  • Experience defining and building new teams and departments from scratch
  • A background owning critical performance metrics at a company level
  • C++ and Native development experience, particularly on mobile
  • Experience hiring for fast-growing startups


PLEASE NOTE: This is not a 100% remote role. We are looking for someone to work in our San Francisco office at least 1 time per week.

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $311,000 to $342,000 + 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!

Top Skills

C++
React Native
The Company
San Francisco, CA
900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

Why Work With Us

Imagine a workplace that not only tolerates but celebrates the unique perspectives each and every person brings to it. One that is representative of the world we want to live, play and work in. Well, imagine no more. Just as Discord gives everyone the power to belong, we are building a workplace that is welcoming and inclusive from the inside out.

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