Software Engineer, Product

Descript builds video and audio editing software designed for the age of AI. The Software Engineer, Product role owns product outcomes end to end, building and improving full-stack experiences in partnership with Product, Design, and Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Own meaningful product surfaces end to end. Take problems from definition through design, implementation, launch, measurement, and maintenance. Improve core Editor workflows, shape the self-serve journey from signup through renewal, or help make Underlord more sentient
• Shape the product, not just the implementation. Partner with Product and Design to propose better interactions, expose constraints, choose the right metrics, and find simpler paths to user outcomes
• Build ambitious full-stack systems with care. Create responsive, reliable experiences. Stretch from TypeScript and React to NodeJS and Temporal to first and third party integrations to get the job done
• Improve how the team learns and ships. Form hypotheses, instrument your work, release incrementally, and read results honestly. Strengthen the tooling, standards, tests, observability, and release practices that help the team move quickly without compromising quality
• Raise the team’s technical ambition. Provide architectural direction, thoughtful reviews, mentoring, and clear human writing

Requirements:

• 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 effectively leverage agents to multiply your impact and think critically about how to better harness AI in your work
• You've owned features/experiments end to end, from planning through launch, and leveraged analytics and metrics to evaluate impact
• You orient quickly in unfamiliar systems by exploring and asking thoughtful questions to both your teammates and agents
• You care about how software feels and notice when the technically correct result is still wrong for the user
• 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
• Work on an editor, media product, creative tool, or payment system (like Stripe)
• TypeScript, HTML/CSS, React, Redux, Node.js, API design, Temporal Workflows, and SQL
• Building an agent or experimenting with media-generation models
• We like people who know how to measure their success through experimentation and product analytics
• Shaders, graphics rendering, audio/visual effects, and media formats