Software Engineer, Billing

Discord
Job Overview

logoDiscord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.

Come build the future of Discord’s business with us! We are looking for impact-focused engineers to join our world-class Revenue group as we accelerate Discord’s growth through the creation of compelling paid products. These products allow us to grow our business while keeping Discord’s core functionality free, and without selling ads or user data. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager of Payments.

To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog!

What You’ll Do

Work with engineers on the team to build the checkout and payments system that underpins Discord’s existing business lines, and enable new revenue streams across Web, Android, and iOSOwn projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product to refine requirements, creating a technical spec, implementing changes, and seeing the project through to launchWork on projects to expand our payment method coverage and optimize our checkout funnelIntegrate with 3rd party payment gateways and other vendors to support our purchase flowsSupport product teams by evolving our multi-tenant payments platform to enable new monetization features and product linesPartner with Product, Finance and Customer Success to improve processes and workflows. Deliver experiments on new workflows / systems and iterate based on feedbackWork closely with Safety and Fraud operations teams to implement new fraud mitigationsImprove reliability, observability, and stability of Discord’s billing system

What You Should Have

3+ years of software engineering experience. We primarily work in the backend (Python), but we also do some frontend work (React, Typescript). You have a background with a similar emphasis on backend development. A growth mindset. You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to continuously improve. A product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work. A love for experimentation. You get excited when numbers move by 1%

Bonus Points

Experience working in the payments/fintech domainExperience integrating with Stripe, Adyen, and/or Braintree

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $159,000 to $175,000 + 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 is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. We are working toward forming true connections around play and shared experiences, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can build genuine friendships. Your future is just a click away!

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