Descript is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Client Platform team at Descript as a highly technical and mission-driven engineer to lead efforts in building reliable, performant, and easy-to-use tools for client-side developers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience in maintaining and improving large scale monorepos
• Experience configuring and extending modern Javascript tooling
• Experience writing design systems in React and using tools like Radix and react-aria
• Proficiency in modern technologies such as Typescript/Javascript/React/node.js
• Customer obsession - you care about providing a good user experience and ensure you fully understand user needs before diving into engineering solutions
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance velocity and quality

Responsibilities

• Build the foundation of the Descript web and desktop (Electron) apps
• Build design systems to support UX consistency across products
• Take shared ownership of the release and packaging process of the app and websites
• Help define and improve methods to test our product surfaces; this includes e2e playwright and performance testing
• Work closely with engineers from product teams across Descript, understanding their productivity and feature pain points and building solutions to resolve them
• Build & maintain standards for data fetching and client side state
• Provide mentorship, including to your more senior counterparts in your particular areas of expertise

Preferred Qualifications

Electron experience

Benefits

• Generous healthcare package
• Catered lunches
• Flexible vacation time