Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Growth
Discord · San Francisco, CA
$196,000–$220,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack senior engineering role on Discord's Growth team, focused on building and optimizing the systems that bring new users onto the platform — spanning web discovery, onboarding flows, and the backend infrastructure that powers them. The work involves TypeScript/React on the frontend and Python on the backend, with a strong emphasis on A/B experimentation and data-driven iteration. Suits engineers with at least three years of production web experience who are comfortable owning projects across the stack.
Mid level · 3+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,550 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,150–2,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting is titled 'Senior Software Engineer' but gates on only 3+ years of experience with no org-wide scope or cross-team technical leadership — the actual requirements support a Mid-level role.
Flask is listed under the required qualifications as an example backend framework ('such as Flask'); it is treated as a hard gate on backend framework experience, with Flask as the named representative.
SEO infrastructure and LLM/search-engine indexing experience appear under 'Bonus points' and are marked preferred accordingly.
Mobile development experience also appears under 'Bonus points' and is marked preferred.
Discord's headquarters is in San Francisco, CA; the posting does not explicitly state a location or remote status, but the role is listed as US-based with a US salary range. CBSA defaulted to San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): mobile development.
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