Engineering Manager - Developer Productivity

Discord is looking for a highly technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Engineering Manager to build and lead a Developer Productivity team. As the manager responsible for a Developer Productivity team reporting into the Foundation Department, you will have enormous impact by working directly with engineering teams and departments to remove friction and generate compounding leverage.

This team's mission is provide dependable tools — effective primitives that empower engineering teams to accelerate development and delivery. If you are motivated by building developer tools, working with internal engineering teams, have a passion for seeing others succeed, and lead with empathy in everything you do, then read on!

What you'll be doing

• Lead a team of engaged engineers -- building autonomy, mastery, and purpose
• Work with internal engineering teams, understand their pain points, and set a clear vision and roadmap to improve the effectiveness of the software development lifecycle
• Building new developer experiences while balancing prioritization of our existing systems such as local dev environments, build and test tooling, CI, and client deployment tooling
• Manage processes and use your technical expertise to improve the Engineering organization and ensure your team achieves extraordinary results
• Work with other Engineering Managers to improve the Engineering organization
• Automating all of the things!

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working in the developer productivity space
• You have 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed a team of 3+ Software Engineers
• You are comfortable with many languages such as Python, Rust, Elixir, TS/JS and have a pulse on the surrounding language tooling ecosystems
• You have experience working with many teams and stakeholders and have a track record of elegantly managing and communicating change
• You are comfortable writing the roadmap -- not just following one
• You are passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but love to code when the opportunity arises
• You get to the heart of issues and lead your team to come up with effective solutions

Bonus Points

• You have experience building and shipping products across multiple client platforms (web, iOS, and Android).
• You have built open source software integrated by other developers.
• You obsess over and nerd out over your own development workflow (keyboards, dotfiles, editors, window managers, etc.)

New York City only Minimum salary of $206,000/year + equity and benefits
Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado only. Minimum salary of $164,800 /year + equity and benefits.
Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Volunteer time off
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!