Full Stack Engineer — Creator Payments Platform

Substack; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Substack is seeking a software engineer to help build and scale our Payments platform, enabling creators to receive direct subscriptions with a strong emphasis on ownership and autonomy. You will contribute to backend and frontend work on payments in a small, high-impact team.

The role involves building core payment surfaces, integrating with processors like Stripe, and delivering features end-to-end using TypeScript, Node/Express, React, and Postgres.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping web applications.
• Independent and autonomous. Strong product sense and intuition.
• Passionate about building a better business model for the internet.

Responsibilities

• Develop the core payment surfaces and backend systems on the company.
• Own your work and deliver high-quality solutions from product concept and proposal to implementation, experimentation, and measurement.
• We work with TypeScript, especially Node/Express and React, and Postgres.
• We also work with payment processors, including Stripe.

Skills

TypeScript

Node/Express

React

PostgreSQL

Web applications

Tools

Stripe

Job description

Substack is seeking a software engineer to help build and scale our Payments platform, enabling creators to receive direct subscriptions with a strong emphasis on ownership and autonomy. You will contribute to backend and frontend work on payments in a small, high-impact team.

The role involves building core payment surfaces, integrating with processors like Stripe, and delivering features end-to-end using TypeScript, Node/Express, React, and Postgres.