Full-Stack Engineer for Creator Platform & Growth Tools

Substack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for full-time roles

Competitive salary

Exceptional benefits

Job summary

Substack is seeking engineers to join its Enterprise Team to build features that empower creators to grow their publications and audiences. You will own end-to-end features, collaborating with designers and engineers on web applications, websites, analytics, and APIs.

You’ll work with TypeScript, Node/Express, React, and Postgres, taking ownership, communicating clearly, and delivering delightful user experiences that help writers connect with readers.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience, including building and shipping web applications.
• Take initiative and ownership of your work, communicate clearly about progress and blockers, and know when to work independently and when to ask for help.
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working on production systems.
• Take pride in building elegant and delightful product experiences that help writers connect with readers.
• Enjoy collaboration with a diverse group of thinkers and bring your unique background to the team.
• Believe in Substack’s mission to build a better business model for writing.

Responsibilities

• Develop features that help ambitious creators grow their audiences and businesses on Substack.
• Build custom websites and reusable tools that help publications express their identity and speed up customization.
• Build audience tools to help publishers reach readers and understand what’s working.
• Collaborate with designers, other engineers, and external customers from concept to deployment.
• Work with TypeScript, Node/Express, React, and Postgres; learn and apply these technologies as needed.

Skills

Web development

Ownership & communication

Production systems

Collaborative teamwork

Tools

TypeScript

Node/Express

React

Postgres

Job description

Substack is seeking engineers to join its Enterprise Team to build features that empower creators to grow their publications and audiences. You will own end-to-end features, collaborating with designers and engineers on web applications, websites, analytics, and APIs.

You’ll work with TypeScript, Node/Express, React, and Postgres, taking ownership, communicating clearly, and delivering delightful user experiences that help writers connect with readers.