Engineering Manager (Social Commerce)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Social Commerce): Building a storefront for game developers to sell directly to players in Discord with an accent on social, contextual, and embedded commerce experiences. Focus on leading full-stack engineers, staying hands-on with code reviews and debugging, owning end-to-end roadmaps, and collaborating with game studio partners.

San Francisco Bay Area

$248,000 to $279,000 (US base) + equity + benefits

Company

Discord is a multiplatform communication platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming communities and shared interests.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of full-stack engineers through hiring, coaching, and career development.
• Stay hands-on technically by reviewing code, debugging issues, and shipping features.
• Own end-to-end outcomes by defining roadmaps, setting metrics, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Drive pace and focus with strong shipping cadence, 80/20 thinking, and quick iteration based on experiments.
• Remove obstacles for the team and cross-functional partners, including escalating or coding solutions.
• Work with game studio partners on their needs and improve tools and APIs.
• Collaborate with product, design, data science, and other engineering teams on shared commerce primitives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience as a hands-on IC building production systems.
• 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership on user-facing products.
• Strong familiarity with Python, TypeScript/React, and React Native for code review and reasoning.
• Product sense to collaborate with PMs and designers, push back, and shape features.
• Comfort with ambiguity, experimentation, A/B tests, and changing direction based on results.
• Track record of growing engineers with actionable feedback and high-leverage roles.
• Ownership mentality to resolve blockers, drive decisions, and ensure team accountability.

Nice to have

• Experience with game development or game platform ecosystems.
• Experience with e-commerce, monetization, or revenue-generating products.
• Active Discord user.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on engineering management in a fast-paced, experimental environment.
• Equity and comprehensive benefits including accommodations during interviews.
• Commitment to inclusion and mission to deepen friendships around games.
• Multiplatform, multigenerational team focused on gaming and shared interests.