Discord · 5 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Design Systems
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$248K/yr - $279K/yr
8+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and social interaction. The Staff Software Engineer on the Design Systems team will lead the technical direction and architecture of the engineering foundations that support the design system, ensuring quality and accessibility across Discord's products.
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Responsibilities
Leading the team’s technical direction and architecture of the engineering foundations that underpin our frontend primitives
Working closely with our engineers and designers to build and maintain our design system, Mana, (design tokens, components, and other code patterns) and improve it over time
Authoring beautiful, accessible components that work across all our supported platforms (iOS, Android, desktop, and web)
Building internal tools like Figma plugins, asset pipelines, codemods, and lint rules to empower all of our engineers and designers to use the design system to the fullest extent
Providing guidance to teams on the best way to use design systems components and tools across their projects through pairing and documentation
Creating interactive prototypes to communicate your work and using user research & data to inform your reasoning
Inspiring the entire team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table and implementing them as next-generation product primitives
Mentoring engineers and setting high engineer standards through code and RFC review and championing UI/UX quality at Discord
Qualification
Required
8+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools
4+ years experience working on a design system
Expertise with web (React, TypeScript) and mobile (React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin) client-focused development
A deep understanding of accessibility and performance, and their application in creating robust user interfaces
Strong, clear written communication skills and a healthy appreciation for good documentation
Strong UI/UX sensibility and passion for great design and user experience
Experience working on cross-functional teams with designers or product managers
Willingness and excitement to learn new technical skills and expand your toolkit
A consistent track record of delivering multi-milestone projects on time and at a high level
Experience safely migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical patterns at scale
Preferred
Bonus if you've used libraries like Reanimated
Benefits
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Company
Discord
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$995.41MKey Investors
Flat CapitalDragoneer Investment GroupSony Interactive Entertainment
2024-03-01Secondary Market
2022-11-22Series I
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M
Leadership Team
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
Mike Polner
VP, Global Head of Marketing
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