Descript builds simple and powerful collaborative tools for new media creators. We strive to eliminate the tedious work that often stands between an idea and its expression, so that creators can focus on developing their craft instead of their usage of tools.

Descript is a next generation digital media platform that offers a new "engine" that lets you edit audio by editing text (instead of waveforms).

That means it does transcription (both automated and human-powered, whichever you prefer), but more interestingly, it lets you move the audio around by simply editing the transcript.

If you're new to editing audio, you'll find it far easier - it's basically like using a word processor. If you're experienced, Descript is faster than waveform editing - and more fun.

If you work with voice audio (as opposed to music), Descript is what the future looks like...join us and change the world.

Descript

Full-stack Engineer

• 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.
• Technical Challenges at Descript
  - Build best-in-class audio & video recording technology that works on web, desktop, and (eventually) mobile
  - Design and build new tools for video editing that give users the same kind of “magic” that they’ve become used to for audio editing in Descript.
  - Reduce the latency of multi-user collaboration to meet the standard set by other web-based collaborative tools.
  - Make Descript a web-first app by migrating systems that rely on native/Desktop integrations.
  - Improve the app’s performance during editing to make Descript’s performance indistinguishable from native competitors.
  - Architect a scalable backend infrastructure to quickly upload, process, and store large media files
  - Build & maintain standards for interoperability among Descript & 3rd party tools.
• What You’ll Do
  - Lead initiatives that impact the larger Engineering org and company, as well as own building and shipping new features across all levels of the stack (frontend and backend)
  - Take shared ownership of the product process, and collaborate with product and design teams on crafting great user experiences
  - Write high-quality testable code that's functional, long-term maintainable, and performant
  - Provide mentorship, including to your more senior counterparts in your particular areas of expertise
  - Contribute to high-level architectural decisions, and help to design scalable and efficient systems
• What You Bring
  - 7+ years of professional software development experience
  - Experience in leading large scale projects involving complex architecture and scalable solutions
  - Proficiency in modern technologies such as Typescript/Javascript/React/node.js/Go/Python
  - Strong CS fundamentals and experience with web technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) and REST APIs
  - Strong written and verbal communication
  - Customer obsession - You care about providing a good user experience and ensure you fully understand user needs before diving into engineering solutions
  - Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term needs with investing in long term foundation
  - Self aware of strengths, and seeking to constantly learn and improve
• Nice to Have
  - Experience building creative tools
  - Experience building and optimizing single-page web applications

Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack

Frontend Engineer

• 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.
• We’re looking for a frontend software engineer to help us refine and expand our next-generation web-based, collaborative audio and video editing tool.
• Frontend 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.

Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Engineering Manager

• Develop a roadmap in partnership with the technical lead and ensure execution is predictable, reliable and sustainable
• Recruit, grow and coach engineers ensuring they receive regular feedback and opportunities to make rapid progress on their personal and professional goals
• Shape the broader engineering organization’s operating model by spearheading technical practices, recruiting, onboarding strategy, planning and prioritization process and more.
• Help scale our culture as we grow

Product Designer

• As a Senior Product Designer, you will help build end-to-end experiences for our users — from improvement to our project browser, our accounts admin, to upcoming editor features. You’ll collaborate closely with user research, product management and engineering to design and ship experiences that make it easy for anyone to create and edit video. Our product is an intricate web of interconnected features, which means design at Descript is mostly about systems design . Designers who do well here are ones are the ones who love mind-melting puzzles, where you have to figure out how to keep all the interconnected parts straight in your head, and build something that has structural integrity while elegantly serving the needs of users. Join us to help build the future of creative tools.

Senior Product Designer

• Design, implement, and maintain our AI infrastructure supporting our machine learning life cycle, including data ingestion, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists to understand their infrastructure needs and ensure our AI systems are robust, scalable, and efficient.
• Work on optimizing and scaling of our models and algorithms for efficient inference.
• Deploy, monitor, and manage AI models in production.
• Implement rigorous security protocols to protect sensitive data and prevent abuse.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product requirements and improve our AI platform.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and be ready to present potential use cases to the team.


Software Engineer - AI/ML

• This is the first design manager we’ve hired at Descript. You’ll report to our VP of Product, and manage our product design and user research team.
• Looking for a design leader who gets their energy from managing and growing a team, and loves helping teams solve complex systems design problems.
• Design team consists of four product designers and one user researcher.
• Looking to roughly double the size of the team in the coming year.
• Responsible for leading the hiring and building a strong design team culture. 
• Design at Descript is mostly about systems design, where you have to figure out how to keep all the interconnected parts straight in your head, and build something that has structural integrity while elegantly serving the needs of users and bringing them moments of delight.
• Foster a culture of design excellence and continuous improvement of both the product and the design process.

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