discord
Senior Software Engineer, Payments
At a Glance
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Compensation
- or this full-time position is $196,000 - $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our sala
- Posted
- 2026-03-11T19:14:23-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Education
- Engineering
Requirements
5+ years of software engineering experience.
Deep expertise in backend development (Python); working knowledge of frontend technologies (React, TypeScript) to contribute across the full stack when needed
You have a growth mindset.
You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to continuously improve
You have a product sense.
You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work
Responsibilities
Work with engineers on the team to build the checkout and payments system that underpins Discord’s existing business lines, and enable new revenue streams across Web, Android, and iOS
Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product to refine requirements, creating a technical spec, implementing changes, and seeing the project through to launch
Work on projects to expand our payment method coverage and optimize our checkout funnel
Integrate with 3rd party payment gateways and other vendors to support our purchase flows
Support product teams by evolving our multi-tenant payments platform to enable new monetization features and product lines
Partner with Product, Finance and Customer Success to improve processes and workflows. Deliver experiments on new workflows / systems and iterate based on feedback