Frontend Engineer - Remote

Overview

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. Learn more about how we're building Descript from one of our Engineers.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• 7+ 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.
• Self aware of strengths and seeking to constantly learn and improve.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Benefits

• Generous healthcare package.
• Catered lunches.
• Flexible vacation time.