What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack position at Descript?
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.
Are you the right applicant for this opportunity Find out by reading through the role overview below.
This role can be remote in the US or based in the SF Bay Area.
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
What You Bring
Nice to Have
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. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking senior and above Software Engineers to join our team.
The base salary range for this role is $160,000- $230,000 / year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.
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Salary : $160,000 - $230,000
