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About the Role
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
Discord launched its Social Commerce team in August 2025 and by the end of the year, we shipped an MVP which was extremely successful. In 2026 we’ve been scaling to more games, adding more features, and extending capabilities.
Discord Social Commerce lets players find, buy, and gift in-game digital goods from chat, friends' Wishlists, within official game communities on Discord. The idea is to bring commerce natively into the social spaces where players already hang out, rather than routing them to external storefronts.
How its done?
Developers integrate through the Discord Social SDK, which includes social layer integration and account linking capabilities. Once connected, players can browse and buy brand-specific gaming skins, costumes, emotes, emojis and more, with the option to gift each other items via Discord DMs, or purchase items in-game through Discord's account-linking system.
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, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. 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!
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Building cross-platform purchase flows, social gifting experiences, and commerce surfaces that meet users where they already are — in voice, in chat, on mobile.
- check_circle Collaborating with the other engineers on your team to write, review, and ship elegant and scalable code used by millions of people.
- check_circle Leading projects through the whole life cycle: scoping, designing, building, shipping, and iterating based on experiment results.
- check_circle Working directly with game studio partners to understand their needs, answer technical questions, and improve the tools we build for them.
- check_circle Collaborating closely with product, design, and game developers to cut through ambiguity on a product where the playbook is still being written.
- check_circle Working with product managers, designers, and partner managers to cut through ambiguity and find the way forward.
- check_circle Using your attention to detail to continually raise the quality bar of the software we write.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 5+ years experience as a software engineer.
- check 2+ years of professional experience with Typescript/React.
- check Expertise with at least a couple parts of our tech stack: Python, Typescript/React, Elixir, Rust being the main areas, with comfort switching across stacks or learning new ones.
- check Strong sense for product and design to collaborate effectively with cross-functional peers.
- check Comfort with ambiguity, shipping A/B tests, reading results, and changing direction rapidly.
- check Actively leverages AI coding tools to accelerate productivity.
About Discord Greenhouse Board
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Discord is a voice, video, and text communication service used by tens of millions of people to talk and hang out with their communities and friends. Operating primarily out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Discord's engineering and product teams build real-time, low-latency communication infrastructure designed to support massive scale, gaming communities, and diverse social spaces.