Senior Software Engineer, Front-End Infrastructure

Discord’s Web Platform team builds and maintains critical systems that power Discord's frontend development across web, desktop, and mobile. These tools support hundreds of engineers daily and enable rapid feature delivery through robust tooling infrastructure. Responsibilities Building and maintaining the tools, pipelines, and processes that keep frontend development at Discord fast, safe, and reliable. Becoming an expert in JavaScript tooling and serving as a resource to help teams solve any and all problems they encounter during development. Refactoring and upgrading the codebase to pay down tech debt, keep up with the state of the art in web development, and drive progress toward better maintainability. Writing new and unique tools based on the specific needs of Discord’s frontend projects to make everything just work. Digging deep into bundlers, linters, formatters, editor plugins, and more to optimize their performance, adopt and test new features early on, and continuously improve the experience for the developers using them. Qualifications 3+ years of working with JavaScript tools and the Node.js ecosystem. Familiarity with and a desire to work across multiple programming languages (generally including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Go, and Swift). Experience developing and maintaining CLI tools and packages in JavaScript. A strong sense for writing maintainable code and deliberately documenting for the future. Understanding of all the tools involved in frontend development and how they work together. Bonus Points Familiarity and experience with localization in frontend applications. Familiarity with React Native, related tools (Metro, Hermes), and bridging between JavaScript and native code. Experience with directly maintaining or writing plugins for tools like bundlers, linters, or formatters in any language. Experience with CI/CD orchestration, Cloudflare workers, cloud storage providers, and other application deployment processes. Location Candidate must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. Salary and Benefits The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $196,000 to $220,500 plus equity and benefits. Compensation details reflect the base salary only. Equal Opportunity Employment Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. If you need accommodations, please let your recruiter know. #J-18808-Ljbffr Discord