Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Descript
$160-230k
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Collaborative audio and video editor
Open for applications
Collaborative audio and video editor
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$160-230k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make video a staple of every communicator's toolkit, alongside docs and slides.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- Experience building creative tools
- Experience building and optimizing single-page web applications
What the job involves
- 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 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
- 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
Our take
Descript offers podcasters, YouTubers and other content creators a series of modern tools for editing and transcribing audio and video files. It stands out from more traditional editing platforms by using modern tools like natural language processing and AI generated transcriptions.
One of its most newsworthy features is its transcription to audio editing software. Users can edit the AI generated transcription in text format, which is then reflected in the audio itself, and in the speaker's “natural" voice. Founded by Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason in 2017, the company has experienced fast growth, and has already been used across the industry by outlets like the BBC, NPR, VICE, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
The company’s early success and future potential have been underlined in the form of substantial funding. The podcasting industry alone (which encompasses both video and audio) accounted for $22 billion. Descript, which continues to add intelligent and quality-shifting features, is well-positioned to capture this lucrative and growing market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Generous healthcare package
- Unlimited vacation time
- Catered lunches
- Whether you love WFH or can’t wait to get back to being in person, we're interested in offering an environment that works for you
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Andrew Mason
(CEO)Studied at Northwestern University before founding Groupon in 2008. Was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of Detour.com.
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