Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
Descript | Senior Backend and Full Stack Engineers | SF or remote (UTC-8:00 to UTC-4:00) | <a href="https://descript.com" rel="nofollow">https://descript.com</a><p>Descript is a newly Series B startup applying AI and great design to make media editing as easy and collaborative as editing a Google Doc. Our software is a critical part of producing some of today’s top podcasts and news productions, and our business is growing fast into new areas like video, voice cloning, and screencasting! It’s a great time to join at an inflection point in our company’s growth as we democratize a field that until now has been highly technical and specialized<p>Our backend eng team is looking for senior backend engineers with distributed systems and ops experience to set our technical strategy as we scale our AI and media infrastructure and build out new products. We’re a small, scrappy team, so you’ll get to work on everything from a platform to deliver per-user trained AI models to media processing to real-time collaboration.<p>We’re committed to supporting remote work (we’re a geographically distributed team), strong work-life balance, and making sure that everyone is given opportunities to grow and excel! Please reach out to me at esuh (at) descript.com or apply at <a href="https://www.descript.com/careers" rel="nofollow">https://www.descript.com/careers</a><p>Although I’m hiring backend engineers, other teams at the company are also looking for full-stack engineers!