Software Engineer - Frontend

• 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.

• 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

• 5+ 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
• Experience building or using creative tools (or a passion for learning how to build them!)
• Self aware of strengths and seeking to constantly learn and improve
• Strong written and verbal communication

• 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 $130,000- $215,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.