Descript
Software Engineer, Product
San Francisco, CA or Remote, US · Senior
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$21,187 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Own meaningful product surfaces end to end.
- Take problems from definition through design, implementation, launch, measurement, and maintenance.
- 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.
- TypeScript, HTML/CSS, React, Redux, Node.js, API design, Temporal Workflows, and SQL.
- Building an agent or experimenting with media-generation models.
- Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio - an editing tool built for the age of AI.
- We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
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.
- Experience that helps:
- Required:
- 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.
- 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.
- Crafting with AI: Building an agent or experimenting with media-generation models.
Nice to have
- Help improve Underlord's harness to enhance its powers, polish its UX and editor integration, and add more capability to our API to unleash Underlord on the world.
Compensation
- $200,000-$275,000, plus equity and benefits.
Benefits
- include a generous healthcare package, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time.
- For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult-we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day.
Company info
- We're especially interested in working with engineers who use the product and are aligned with our mission.
- We are a team of 150 and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors ( OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital ).
Visa & Work Authorization
- employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status
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