Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Key Skills

AWS, HTML, JavaScript, Kubernetes-K8s, NoSQL, Python Programming, PyTorch, SQL

Job Description

Our vision is to build the next generation platform to enable easy and fast creation of audio and video content powered by cutting-edge AI. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit and mix spoken audio and video comes with a series of unique challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems. Learn more about how we're building Descript from one of our Engineers.

We’re looking for a frontend software engineer to help us refine and expand our next-generation web-based, collaborative audio and video editing tool. Frontend engineers at Descript work on wide-ranging projects, from the nitty-gritty details of editing interactions, to the critical features of a modern cloud product, to the systems that power real-time collaboration and media playback, to cutting-edge AI integrations. As Descript is a unique product, engineers will often need to find creative solutions to problems in collaboration with product and design.

Tech Stack

• Descript is built with Typescript, React/Redux, and Node.js, and takes advantage of WebAssembly, WebCodecs, WebGL, and WebAudio for real-time rendering and compositing

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver a high quality user experience
• Develop and refine front-end architecture and best practices to support a fast-moving product engineering team
• Work alongside AI researchers to build innovative user experiences around the state-of-the-art advancements in AI
• Iterate on our script-and-scene media editing paradigm to keep users in flow state during the editing process
• Push the web browser to its limit, writing high-performance code rivaling native applications

What You Bring

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Industry experience in a frontend software engineering role
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages and frontend frameworks, especially Typescript/Javascript/React
• Pride in delivering high-quality, maintainable, observable, debuggable features
• Desire to take ownership, and resourcefulness to find answers and simplify problems
• Self aware of strengths and seeking to constantly learn and improve
• Strong written and verbal communication

Nice to Have

• Experience building creative tools
• Experience building and optimizing single-page web applications (SPAs)

At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Software Engineer. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking senior and above Software Engineers to join our team.

The base salary range for this role is $160,000-$230,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.