Senior Software Engineer, Client Platform

About the Role Descript is on a mission to make audio and video content creation and editing fast, easy, and accessible to all. We are building a cutting-edge media editor incorporating real-time collaboration, ground-breaking UX, and cutting-edge AI. This is the future of media! The Builder Experience (BIX) team is one of the critical platform teams at Descript. The group is responsible for the foundations that every product engineer builds on top of. We own the design system, core UI frameworks, client performance, state management patterns, continuous integration, and the libraries and tooling that keep our codebase healthy and our engineers productive. If it touches the client shell, rendering pipeline, cross-cutting frontend infrastructure, or GitHub Actions, it's in our orbit. We're looking for a engineer who is deeply fluent in modern React, passionate about frontend platform