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Senior Software Engineer, Client Platform

DescriptSan Francisco, CA | Remote
Remote Full-time $195K/yr - $250K/yr

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What You'll DoReact: Lead the implementation of React throughout the codebase. Utilize your deep expertise in React to address specific issues, design and implement holistic solutions, educate peers, and stay current with industry trends. Establish migration patterns, assess render performance improvements, and assist teams through transitions. Design System: Enhance and expand Descript's component library. Develop accessible, composable, and well-documented components in close collaboration with Design, set contribution standards, and promote consistent usage across products. App Performance: Analyze, identify, and resolve client-side performance bottlenecks. Set performance budgets, track key metrics, and create dashboards for accountability. Design patterns and tools at the framework level to facilitate optimal performance. Testing & Quality: Oversee frontend testing within Builder Experience. Spot gaps in our testing strategy, propose improvements of all sizes, and collaborate with the engineering organization to implement changes across the codebase. Enablement & Guidance: Act as a catalyst for improvement. Create playbooks and documentation, deliver technical talks, partner with product engineers, and develop local tools to enhance developer efficiency and quality.

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About the Role

At Descript, we are revolutionizing the way audio and video content is created and edited, ensuring that the process is swift, user-friendly, and accessible to everyone. Our innovative media editor leverages real-time collaboration, exceptional user experience, and advanced AI technology. This is the future of media!

The Builder Experience (BIX) team is a pivotal part of Descript's platform, laying the groundwork for every product engineer. We manage the design system, essential UI frameworks, client performance, state management patterns, continuous integration, as well as the libraries and tools that maintain our codebase's health and enhance engineer productivity. If it involves the client shell, rendering pipeline, or cross-cutting frontend infrastructure, it's within our domain.

We are seeking a passionate engineer, proficient in modern React, who thrives in frontend platform development and is motivated by the goal of enhancing the efficiency of our entire engineering organization. You will engage in hands-on systems work—such as performance tuning, dependency management, and the evolution of our design system—while also adopting a coaching and enablement approach to assist product teams in implementing improvements and elevating their skills.

About Descript

Descript is committed to transforming the landscape of audio and video content creation and editing. Our team is dedicated to building a state-of-the-art media editor that integrates real-time collaboration, innovative user experiences, and advanced AI technologies, paving the way for the future of media production.

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