[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Front-End Infrastructure

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Discord is a platform that plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, aimed at making it easier and more fun for people to connect while gaming. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Web Platform team, responsible for building and maintaining critical systems that support frontend development across various platforms, ensuring rapid feature delivery through robust tooling infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining the tools, pipelines, and processes that keep frontend development at Discord fast, safe, and reliable
• Becoming an expert in JavaScript tooling and serving as a resource to help teams solve any and all problems they encounter during development
• Refactoring and upgrading the codebase to pay down tech debt, keep up with the state of the art in web development, and drive progress toward better maintainability
• Writing new and unique tools based on the specific needs of Discord’s frontend projects to make everything Just Work
• Digging deep into bundlers, linters, formatters, editor plugins, and more to optimize their performance, adopt and test new features early on, and continuously improve the experience for the developers using them

Skills

• 3+ years of working with JavaScript tools and the Node.js ecosystem
• Familiarity with and a desire to work across multiple programming languages (generally including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Go, and Swift)
• Experience developing and maintaining CLI tools and packages in JavaScript
• A strong sense for writing maintainable code and deliberately documenting for the future
• Understanding of all of the tools involved in frontend development and how they work together
• Familiarity and experience with localization in frontend applications
• Familiarity with React Native, related tools (Metro, Hermes), and bridging between JavaScript and native code
• Experience with directly maintaining or writing plugins for tools like bundlers, linters, or formatters in any language
• Experience with CI/CD orchestration, Cloudflare workers, cloud storage providers, and other application deployment processes

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits
• Relocation assistance may be available
• Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.

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