Founding Engineer: Build Local Creator Marketing (SoHo)

Storytime; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Equity

In-person office in SoHo

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Storytime is hiring a founding engineer to build the product and engineering function from the ground up in SoHo, NYC. You will work directly with Storytime’s founders, own core features from sketch to production, and shape architecture and engineering culture for a growing team.

This in-person role anchors the platform, with opportunities to prototype AI-powered features, improve creator-brand workflows, and ship impactful modules across web and mobile.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience shipping software used by real users.
• Comfortable working across the web and mobile stack.
• Strong product judgment and ability to turn problems into simple versions.
• Ability to work directly with founders and customers to define direction.

Responsibilities

• Own major product areas end to end: discovery, design, implementation, release and iteration.
• Shape platform architecture and technical direction, balancing speed and durability.
• Work across the stack: web, mobile, backend, APIs, data, infrastructure.
• Collaborate with founders on product strategy, roadmap and priorities.
• Talk with brands, creators, and internal teams to translate problems into software.
• Instrument what you ship and use data to guide next steps.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, deployment and incident response.
• Help hire, onboard and mentor future engineers.
• Fix root causes and not just patches.

Skills

Full-stack generalist

Architectural design

Shipping software

Customer collaboration

Code quality & testing

Job description

Storytime is hiring a founding engineer to build the product and engineering function from the ground up in SoHo, NYC. You will work directly with Storytime’s founders, own core features from sketch to production, and shape architecture and engineering culture for a growing team.

This in-person role anchors the platform, with opportunities to prototype AI-powered features, improve creator-brand workflows, and ship impactful modules across web and mobile.