Senior Frontend Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on Descript’s Growth engineering team, you’ll own the marketing website and partner with cross-functional teams to ship production web experiences.

Key Missions

• Take responsibility for the marketing web site, defining the technical direction for the CMS and component system.
• Build reusable components and page templates to speed up creation of landing pages and campaigns.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Brand, Design, and GTM teams to translate campaigns into production-ready web code.
• Enhance release and QA discipline, with a strong focus on web performance and analytics.
• Maintain the A/B testing setup and ensure high technical quality across web experiences.

Requirements

• Experience with a headless CMS or visual editor (e.g., Contentful, Builder.io, Webflow, or similar).
• Strong HTML/CSS fundamentals (DOM debugging, layout troubleshooting, and accessibility (a11y)).
• Solid JavaScript/TypeScript and React experience with clean, maintainable code.
• Comfort with broader web stack work: REST APIs, serverless functions, data pipelines, and third-party integrations.
• Deep familiarity with web performance and measurement (Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, lazy loading, bundle optimization).
• 5+ years of professional software engineering, with meaningful focus on web frontend/marketing engineering.
• Strong communication skills; can explain technical constraints to marketing/GTM stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with Next.js and when to use SSR/SSG/ISR.
• Systems thinking: manage both platform-level strategy and detailed issues (e.g., broken event tags, slow LCP).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a B2B SaaS or PLG environment where the website supports self-serve and sales-led motions.
• Experience with experimentation platforms (e.g., LaunchDarkly, Eppo, or custom frameworks).
• Familiarity with marketing analytics/GTM tooling (e.g., Amplitude, Segment, Google Tag Manager, Salesforce integrations).
• Technical SEO experience (schema markup, crawl optimization, rendering strategy).
• Experience with lead enrichment and inbound routing platforms (e.g., Default, Clearbit, RB2B, or similar).