[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems @Discord
Apr 12, 2025 - Discord is hiring a remote Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems. 💸 Salary: $196,000 - $220,500 + equity + benefits. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
This position is US based only. The Design Systems team is a cross-functional team that ensures design quality across all facets of UI, content, and graphics. We develop the core primitives and standards that engineers and designers use to build Discord’s products. Designers and engineers on this team collaborate closely to accelerate product feature teams’ ability to ship new features with UI that are accessible, consistent, and high quality. This team also sets the standard for accessibility on Discord, and supports other engineering teams in achieving it.
As such, the Design Systems team plays a critical role enabling Discord to achieve its core mission: creating a space for everyone to find belonging.
What You'll Be Doing:
- 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, 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.
- Create interactive prototypes to communicate your work. Use user research and data to inform your reasoning.
- Inspire the entire team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table and implementing them as next-generation product primitives.
- Working with Staff+ level engineers to grow your skills and aptitudes.
- Reviewing code and designs.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools.
- 1+ years experience working on a design system.
- Expertise with web (React, TypeScript) or mobile (React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin) client-focused development.
- A deep understanding of accessibility and its application in creating robust user interfaces.
- Strong, clear written communication skills and a healthy appreciation for good documentation.
- 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.
Requirements
- #LI-Remote
Benefits
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 - $220,500 + 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.
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Salary
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$196,000 - $220,500 + equity + benefits
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Remote
Location
USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Apr 12, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
