DiscordEngineering Manager, Financial Platform
Engineering Manager to lead the Financial Platform team, responsible for revenue accounting, tax, and payout integrations, leading a full-stack team.
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.
This position is US based only.
We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-focused Engineering Manager to lead the Financial Platform team. You’ll be responsible for business-critical revenue accounting, tax, and payout integrations, along with supporting new products such as a virtual currency. You will lead a full-stack team of driven engineers to ensure Discord’s revenue operations are transparent, scalable, and accurate, and accelerate product development teams by abstracting hard financial engineering problems. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog!
What You'll Be Doing
- Build and lead an exceptional team of engaged engineers by coaching, hiring, and fostering a culture of ownership and impact.
- Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Financial Platform by collaborating with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Accounting, Legal, and Tax.
- Collaborate with the team to design solutions that support existing revenue lines at scale and enable rapid growth of new products.
- Use your technical and domain expertise to ensure your team delivers extraordinary results at the high technical level we set.
- Make sound, first-principle decisions around resourcing with clear rationale to partners and team members.
- Work with other Engineering leaders to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy.
What you should have
- You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- You have 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and have successfully managed a team of 5+ Software Engineers.
- You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- You have a proven track record leading platform teams and you understand the tradeoffs necessary to enable client teams while simultaneously improving your own domain.
- You are a first principles thinker who can work with others to come up with pragmatic solutions.
- You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience growing engineers.
- You are passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but secretly love to roll up your sleeves and getting elbow deep in code when the opportunities arise.
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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $223,000 - $245,500 + 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._
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. 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! Your future is just a click away!