# Senior Software Engineer, Growth

**Company**: Descript
**Location**: San Francisco, CA | Remote
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,000-$245,000/year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/descript/jobs/7683752003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

## The Mission

Descript is revolutionising how traditional editing methodologies and AI technologies come together in every part of the creation process (recording, transcribing, editing, and sharing) to make it faster and easier than ever to create high-quality content.

## What You'll Work On

Growth at Descript spans the full user journey,from initial signup to the point where customers can’t imagine working without us. This isn’t a role only focused on small tweaks; it’s about building systems that redefine how we grow.

### Build the systems that makes growth possible

- Design and own the experimentation playbook , the frameworks, tooling, and best practices that let the whole team run faster, cleaner tests

- Architect personalisation and user journey systems that adapt the product experience based on who someone is and what they're trying to do

- Build the data pipelines and instrumentation that give us a real-time window into what's working

### Run the experiments that move the needle

- Own A/B tests end-to-end: form the hypothesis, instrument the feature, ship it, analyse the results, make the call , repeat

- Own activation and onboarding flows , the early moments that turn a new signup into someone who gets it and stays

- Help establish the metrics culture , work with Data and Product to define what we're optimising for, and build toward it

### Shape the product, not just the code

- Build full-stack across frontend and backend: snappy React UI, the APIs behind it, and everything in between

- Partner with Product and Design to define what we're building, not just how we build it

- Bring a systems thinker's perspective to the team to enhance the playbook , your judgement will carry real weight

## What You Bring

### Required

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (senior) or 8+ years (staff/lead)

- Strong command of TypeScript/JavaScript and React , you're the person others come to with hard frontend questions

- Deep familiarity with web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, REST APIs, performance optimisation

- Experience running A/B tests and product experiments , you understand what a good test looks like and what the results actually mean

- A genuine hunger to connect engineering work to business outcomes , you care about the metric, not just the merge

- Comfort with ambiguity: you can define the problem, not just solve one that's handed to you

- Strong written and verbal communication , you can explain a trade-off to an engineer and a result to a stakeholder

## Why This Role, Why Now

The team exists, the product is genuinely loved, and the opportunity is wide open. This isn't a 'maintain what's working' role , it's a 'figure out what works, then scale it' role. If you want to own the full arc from idea to impact, and work on a product that creators actually use, this is it.

## Benefits

- Generous healthcare package

- 401k matching programme

- Catered lunches

- Flexible vacation time

## Fun fact about me: I love pineapple on pizza.

I am excited to apply for the Senior Software Engineer, Growth position at Descript. With my passion for building scalable systems and my experience in running A/B tests and product experiments, I believe I would be a great fit for this role. I am looking forward to discussing my application and how I can contribute to the growth of Descript.

## Skills

### Required
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React
- HTML
- CSS
- REST APIs
- performance optimisation
- A/B testing
- product experiments

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