Current Openings

Design Engineer (Customer Solutions) Americas

About Us

Discourse is a global company with a product that is 100% open source. Our team is 100 people and growing. We’re transforming the online community space. Our product powers a substantial segment of successful online communities, with >30,000 Discourse instances globally. We have thousands of paying customers, with a growing number of Fortune 500 companies on our list, alongside many leading players in the fast-growth technology, gaming and AI spaces.

We’re looking for someone located in a US timezone. Applicants in other timezones will not be considered (even if they are willing to adjust their working hours, we don’t think it’s healthy).

About the job

Design Engineers on the customer solutions team at Discourse are generalists; you’ll ultimately do a bit of everything. Implementing designs in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, working with Discourse customers to implement custom themes & components for their communities, maintaining theme additions & changes for long-term Discourse client sites, and more.

We’re looking for someone who has experience with:

Your responsibilities will include:

At Discourse, the ability to communicate well in writing is paramount. We use our own software, Discourse, for most communication and most of your interaction with customers and team members will be in writing. In order to live these values, we look for folks who are:

About our pay & benefits

We believe that high-quality benefits make our team more effective. We’ve been thoughtful about our benefits package which includes a completely flexible schedule, 5 weeks of vacation per year, funding for a co-working stipend, and much more!

Our Salary Framework is location and experience based and we’re happy to provide a range up front. We also give every employee a stake in the success of the business, regardless of seniority or role. All full-time employees are eligible to receive equity options in the company as part of our equity incentive program.

Lastly, we believe in having a welcoming workplace where people with diverse backgrounds and cultures can create something great together. We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet every qualification! Send your resume and a little intro for us to get to know you, with insight into why you want this job here at Discourse.