Engineering Manager

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You will help build a team or teams of engineers developing and scaling features for Discord. We have seen enormous growth, and need to grow to pursue these new opportunities in parallel. You will hire engineers motivated by our mission and grow the teams into creative, autonomous, and reliable execution squads. You will run the projects and partner with project managers and team members to find the best approaches to achieve the teams' goals, and ensure delivery. What you'll do
  • Build teams of highly-engaged engineers by hiring, coaching and empowering your team to make an impact
  • Work with Product, Design and Marketing to establish your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs.
  • Use your technical expertise to routinely improve and ensure your team achieves extraordinary results at the high technical level we set.
  • Adjust team composition, and create new teams, to adjust to changing needs or tuning team dynamics
  • Make sound first-principle decisions around resourcing, and making the rationale clear to partners and team members
  • Partner with Director of Engineering on strategic planning and to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy.

Who you are

  • You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
  • You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed at least 5 Software Engineers.
  • You're a storyteller, who can unite a team behind a vision, and set clear goals.
  • You thrive in ambiguous environments and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
  • You are a first principles thinker that works with others to come up with pragmatic solutions.
  • You love experimentation and get excited when numbers move by 1%.
  • Code does not scare you, you are still an engineer even if you don't do it all the time.
  • You keep up with the industry trends and and help identify new technologies that can help us better solve problems

Benefits and Perks

  • Medical insurance including Health, Dental, Vision
  • 13 paid holidays
  • Unlimited sick days
  • Parental Leave and fertility benefits
  • Transgender benefits
  • Supported-employee clubs and Employee Resource Groups
  • Commuter Contributions of $270 a month (pre-tax)
  • Daily lunches and unlimited snacks
  • Monthly gym and fitness stipend

Discord is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity, inclusion, and aim to provide a sense of belonging for everyone.

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Our platform is our headquarters! Because we believe great work isn’t tied to a physical space, most of our roles offer flexibility – whether it’s from the comfort of your home (in approved locations), an inspiring office setting or a combo of both!

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