Staff Software Engineer, Descript

• Full-stack product engineer. It’s ok if you don’t love CSS, but you should be comfortable integrating and debugging functionality and logic end to end and think about systems holistically
• Well versed in web development and associated devtools
• Technologies: Typescript, REST API development, relational DBs
• Track record evolving and re-architecting complex systems to accommodate growth while maintaining stability
• Comfortable walking off the beaten path, at the edge of systems
• Competent thinking about security risks & mitigations
• Experience integrating 3rd party services
• Strong at testing and debugging
• Solid collaboration and communication
• Growth mindset

Desirable

• We are building the next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for easy and fast creation of audio and video content
• Growing this revolutionary product involves unique technical challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems
• The Core Team builds features to help our users find each other and use Descript to create and communicate their ideas with the world
• We own critical systems ancillary to the business, such as access control, team management, project organization, usage tracking, payments, and more
• We are looking for a Staff full-stack Software Engineer to help us expand these foundational systems
• Take point on critical surface areas and help scale them to the next level
• Own building and shipping features across all levels of the stack (frontend and backend)
• Write high-quality testable code that's functional, long term maintainable and performant
• Collaborate with EPD on crafting great user experiences
• Integrate systems to power Descript in smart ways
• 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 internally