Who we are
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.
What you’ll do:
- 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
What you bring:
- 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
Nice to have:
- AI curious: You've explored AI tools, recognize them as useful for specific situations, and know how to use them effectively while acknowledging their limitations
- Experience building account management features such as
- Invite flows, domain discovery, team management
- Enterprise features like audit logs, SSO and SCIM
- Opinions/experience with authz at scale: roles, permissions, RBAC, FGA
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.
The base salary range for this role is $215,000-$270,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.
