Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Company: Descript
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 12, 2024

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 from one of our Engineers.
We are looking for frontend engineers who will help us refine and expand our next-generation web-based, collaborative audio and video editing tool. 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.
This role can be remote in the US or based in the SF Bay Area.
Tech Stack

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• 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
  
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  • 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
    
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    • 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
      
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      • 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.
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