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Senior Software Engineer - Client Platform

Descript

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Client Platform team at Descript, you will play a crucial role in building the next-generation platform for creating audio and video content. This position involves working on both web and desktop applications, utilizing technologies such as Electron, React, and Node.js.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and Maintain Applications: Develop the foundation of Descript's web and desktop (Electron) apps, ensuring they are reliable and performant.
  • Design Systems: Create design systems to support UX consistency across products.
  • Release and Packaging: Take shared ownership of the release and packaging process of the app and websites.
  • Testing and Performance: Define and improve methods to test product surfaces, including end-to-end and performance testing.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with engineers from product teams across Descript to understand their productivity and feature pain points, building solutions to resolve them.
  • Data Standards: Build and maintain standards for data fetching and client-side state.
  • Mentorship: Provide mentorship, including to senior counterparts, in your areas of expertise.

What You Bring

  • Experience: 5+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Technical Skills: Proficiency in modern technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Node.js.
  • Monorepos: Experience in maintaining and improving large-scale monorepos.
  • JavaScript Tooling: Experience configuring and extending modern JavaScript tooling.
  • Design Systems: Experience writing design systems in React and using tools like Radix and react-aria.
  • Customer Obsession: A strong focus on providing a good user experience and understanding user needs.
  • Judgment: Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance velocity and quality.

Nice to Have

  • Electron Experience: Experience with Electron is a plus.

About Descript

Descript is a cutting-edge company building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio, designed for the age of AI. We are a team of 150, backed by some of the world's greatest investors, including OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz. Descript is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

  • Healthcare: Generous healthcare package.
  • Meals: Catered lunches.
  • Vacation: Flexible vacation time.

Location

This is a remote position, but our headquarters is based in San Francisco. We hire people authorized to work anywhere in the US or Canada.

Join us at Descript and be part of a team that is revolutionizing the way audio and video content is created and edited.

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