Software Engineer, Descript
Core
$130-215k
1-5 days a week in office (Mission District, CA)
Collaborative audio and video editor
Be an early applicant
Collaborative audio and video editor
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-215k
1-5 days a week in office (Mission District, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make video a staple of every communicator's toolkit, alongside docs and slides.
Role
Who you are
- Full-stack product engineer
- Well versed in web development and associated devtools
- Technologies: Typescript, React, REST API development, relational dbs
- Comfortable walking off the beaten path, at the edge of systems
- Experience integrating 3rd party services
- Track record of working on complex surface areas
- Strong at testing and debugging
- Solid collaboration and communication
- Growth mindset
- Competent with thinking about security risks & mitigations
Desirable
- Experience building account management features such as
- Invite flows, domain discovery, team management
- Paywalls, checkout, subscriptions… working with Stripe
- Auth enterprise features like SSO and SCIM
- Opinions/experience with auth at scale: roles, permissions, RBAC, FGA
What the job involves
- 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
- The Core Team does a wide breadth of critical work to bring users to realize their ideas in the novel media editing platform that is Descript
- We are a fun and creative group of engineers who find their way along less-traveled code paths, often crossing borders to do systems integrations
- Paying attention to performance and security, we own full-stack feature development, iterate on high stakes ancillary systems (auth, payments...), and make foundational investments to improve the app
- 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 full-stack software Engineer to help us expand these foundational systems
- Own building and shipping new features across all levels of the stack (frontend and backend)
- Collaborate with product and design teams on crafting great user experiences
- Write high-quality testable code that's functional, long term maintainable and performant
- Take point on critical surface areas and help scale them to the next level
- Integrate systems to power Descript in smart ways
Our take
Descript offers podcasters, YouTubers and other content creators a series of modern tools for editing and transcribing audio and video files. It stands out from more traditional editing platforms by using modern tools like natural language processing and AI generated transcriptions.
One of its most newsworthy features is its transcription to audio editing software. Users can edit the AI generated transcription in text format, which is then reflected in the audio itself, and in the speaker's “natural" voice. Founded by Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason in 2017, the company has experienced fast growth, and has already been used across the industry by outlets like the BBC, NPR, VICE, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
The company’s early success and future potential have been underlined in the form of substantial funding. The podcasting industry alone (which encompasses both video and audio) accounted for $22 billion. Descript, which continues to add intelligent and quality-shifting features, is well-positioned to capture this lucrative and growing market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Generous healthcare package
- Unlimited vacation time
- Catered lunches
- 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
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrew Mason
(CEO)Studied at Northwestern University before founding Groupon in 2008. Was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of Detour.com.
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