Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Summary

Join Descript, a company building the next generation platform for audio and video content creation using AI, as a Frontend Engineer. You will collaborate with designers, product managers, and AI researchers to develop and refine a web-based collaborative editing tool. This role involves building high-performance code, iterating on the editing paradigm, and working with cutting-edge AI integrations. The position requires 7+ years of software development experience and proficiency in Typescript/Javascript/React. This role can be remote in the US or based in the SF Bay Area. Descript offers a competitive salary, generous healthcare, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Generous healthcare package
• Catered lunches
• Flexible vacation time