Software Engineer, Product: TypeScript & React (Remote US) NEW

The Briefed; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) matching

Flexible vacation

Job summary

Descript is seeking a product engineer to own features from idea to shipped, measured results, on one of its teams such as Editor, Growth and Monetization, Media, or Identity and Access. You will work with product and design on interactions and metrics, build full-stack features with TypeScript, React, Node.js and Temporal, and release in small steps while measuring outcomes.

Remote role in the United States with occasional in-person meetups.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping customer-facing products.
• Owned features or experiments end to end and measured their impact with analytics.
• Uses AI agents in daily work and thinks critically about them.
• Checks work with reproductions, logs and tests rather than trusting output.

Responsibilities

• Own product areas end to end: definition, design, build, launch, measurement and upkeep.
• Work with Product and Design on better interactions and the right metrics.
• Build full-stack features with TypeScript, React, Node.js and Temporal.
• Instrument your work, release in small steps and read the results honestly.
• Review code, mentor teammates and give architectural direction.

Job description

Descript makes an AI-powered video and audio editor. As a product engineer you own features from idea to shipped, measured result, on one of its teams: the Editor, Growth and Monetization, Media, the Underlord AI co-editor, or Identity and Access.

Key responsibilities

• Own product areas end to end: definition, design, build, launch, measurement and upkeep
• Work with Product and Design on better interactions and the right metrics
• Build full-stack features with TypeScript, React, Node.js and Temporal
• Instrument your work, release in small steps and read the results honestly
• Review code, mentor teammates and give architectural direction

Requirements

• 5+ years building and shipping customer-facing products
• Owned features or experiments end to end and measured their impact with analytics
• Uses AI agents in daily work and thinks critically about them
• Checks work with reproductions, logs and tests rather than trusting output

Nice to have

• Experience with an editor, media product, creative tool or payments system
• TypeScript, React, Redux, Node.js, SQL and Temporal workflows
• Building AI agents or working with media-generation models

Remote details

• Remote role in the United States; Descript hires for remote and hybrid roles
• Remote staff meet in person a few times a year

Salary and benefits

Base salary $200,000 to $275,000 a year, plus equity. Benefits include healthcare, 401(k) matching and flexible vacation.