Product Software Engineer

Join Descript, a cutting-edge startup revolutionizing video editing and communication. As a Product Software Engineer, you'll own outcomes, not just tickets, and work closely with product, design, and engineering teams. You'll have the opportunity to design full-stack systems, shape the product, and improve team learning and shipping practices. Enjoy competitive benefits, including health coverage, retirement plans, flexible time off, parental leave, a home-office stipend, and annual off-site gatherings.

• Assumer la responsabilité des résultats en prenant un problème d'une idée brute à un résultat mesuré, en travaillant en étroite collaboration avec les équipes produit, design et ingénierie.
• Concevoir des systèmes complets et réfléchis qui fonctionnent de manière fiable et apportent de la valeur aux utilisateurs, en améliorant les flux de travail du produit.
• Fournir une direction architecturale, des critiques réfléchies, du mentorat et une rédaction claire pour élever l'ambition technique de l'équipe.

• You orient quickly in unfamiliar systems by exploring and asking thoughtful questions to both your teammates and agents
• You have 5+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing products, including end-to-end features that measurably improved user or business outcomes
• You care about how software feels and notice when the technically correct result is still wrong for the user
• You’ve owned features/experiments end to end, from planning through launch, and leveraged analytics and metrics to evaluate impact
• You create clarity in ambiguous work and can navigate (and simplify!) significant product and technical complexity
• You validate your work rigorously through focused reproductions, logs, tests, and other evidence rather than trusting that the output looks right
• You effectively leverage agents to multiply your impact and think critically about how to better harness AI in your work
• Descript is a startup. We're especially interested in working with engineers who use the product and are aligned with our mission
• Experimentation/Analytics Experience: We like people who know how to measure their success through experimentation and product analytics
• Similar Products: Work on an editor, media product, creative tool, or payment system (like Stripe)
• Our Stack: TypeScript, HTML/CSS, React, Redux, Node.js, API design, Temporal Workflows, and SQL. But we obviously live in a post stack world. We just rewrote our media engine in Rust. None of us knows Rust
• Intricacies of Video: Shaders, graphics rendering, audio/visual effects, and media formats
• Crafting with AI: Building an agent or experimenting with media-generation models