Senior Software Engineer - Client Platform

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.

The Client Platform team is a part of our Platform org and it enables Descript’s mission by empowering client side developers with reliable, performant, and easy to use tools. As we grow to achieve that mission, we’re looking to add highly technical and mission-driven engineers to lead our efforts.

What You’ll Do

• 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

What You Bring

• 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

Nice to Have:

• Electron experience

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 $170,000-$230,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.

About Descript

Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 — with a proven CEO and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).

Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.

Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarter is based in San Francisco, and we currently hire people that are authorized to work anywhere in the US or Canada. Whether you love WFH or can’t wait to get back to being in person, we're interested in offering an environment that works for you.

Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.