Software Engineer, Product & Growth — Entry Level

Storytime; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Mentorship from founders

In-person in SoHo

Equity opportunity

Competitive base compensation

Job summary

Storytime in SoHo, New York City is seeking an entry-level Software Engineer for Product & Growth. This role focuses on hands-on full-stack development using JavaScript/TypeScript with React and Node.js, collaborating with founders and cross‑functional teams to ship features near customer outcomes.

You will explore opportunities, propose solutions, build and release them to real users, and measure impact. Ideal for someone excited by startups, growth, and a small team environment.

Qualifications

• Graduating student or entry-level engineer with up to 2 years of experience.
• Comfort with web development using JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Fundamentals of React, APIs, databases, and modern web development.
• Interest in startups and local commerce.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship full-stack features across Storytime’s customer-facing and internal applications.
• Work across frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, and relational data.
• Partner with users and nontechnical teams to turn operational pain points into thoughtful software.
• Help scope projects, identify tradeoffs, and break larger ideas into releases that ship quickly.
• Instrument features and use product data to understand user behavior and friction.
• Own projects from discovery through implementation, testing, deployment and iteration.
• Write maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews.
• Investigate bugs and production issues and improve underlying systems.

Skills

Strong fundamentals

Excellent communication

Self-motivated

Education

Computer Science or Engineering degree welcome

Tools

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Node.js

Go

Swift (SwiftUI)

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Software Engineer, Product & Growth — Entry Level

Location: SoHo, New York City
Employment Type: Full-time, in-person
Experience: Entry level / 0–2 years
Compensation: Salary + equity + benefits

About Storytime

Storytime is building the platform where local businesses and creators grow together. We connect restaurants, cafés, fitness studios, retailers and other neighborhood brands with authentic local creators. Our technology makes it easy for businesses to launch, manage and measure influencer campaigns while helping creators discover opportunities with places they genuinely love.

We are a fast-growing, early-stage company with a fully custom technology platform and a small team based in SoHo, New York City.

Role Overview

We’re looking for an early-career software engineer who wants to build production software close to customers and business outcomes.

This is first and foremost a hands‑on software engineering role. You will spend most of your time writing code, shipping features, and improving our platform. You will also work directly with Storytime’s founders and our partnerships, community, support, sales, and operations teams to identify problems, understand user behavior, and decide what we should build next.

Rather than receiving fully defined tickets, you will help investigate opportunities, propose solutions, build them, release them to real users, and measure whether they worked.

This role is especially suited for someone who is excited by the intersection of full stack development, product, AI feature development, growth, GTM and ios development.

What You’ll Work On

Projects may include:

• Improving how brands sign up, create campaigns, and launch their first creator collaborations

• Building better creator discovery, matching, participation, and content-approval experiences

• Creating internal tools that help our partnerships, community, support, and campaign teams work more efficiently

• Developing dashboards and reports that help brands understand campaign performance

• Building product experiments that improve activation, conversion, engagement, and retention

• Automating repetitive workflows across creator outreach, campaign operations, and customer support

• Prototyping practical AI-powered features and turning successful prototypes into reliable products

• Improving the performance, reliability, testing, and observability of our applications

Key Responsibilities

• Build and ship full-stack features across Storytime’s customer-facing and internal applications

• Work across frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, and relational data

• Partner with users and nontechnical teams to turn operational pain points into thoughtful software

• Help scope projects, identify tradeoffs, and break larger ideas into releases that can ship quickly

• Instrument features and use product data to understand what users are doing and where they encounter friction

• Own projects from initial discovery through implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration

• Write maintainable, well‑tested code and participate in code reviews

• Investigate bugs and production issues, then improve the underlying systems rather than applying temporary fixes

• Contribute ideas about both the product and the way our engineering team operates

Our Technology

Our current platform includes technologies such as:

• JavaScript and TypeScript

• React

• Node.js / Bun / Go

• Swift - SwiftUi / Uikit

• GraphQL and HTTP APIs

• PostgreSQL

You do not need prior professional experience with every part of our stack. We care more about strong fundamentals, evidence that you can build things, and the ability to learn quickly.

Ideal Candidate

You may be a graduating student, recent graduate, or early-career engineer with up to approximately two years of professional experience.

You would be a strong fit if you:

• Have built and deployed a meaningful software project, whether through an internship, startup, freelance engagement, coursework, hackathon, or personal project

• Are comfortable building web applications with JavaScript or TypeScript

• Understand the fundamentals of React, APIs, databases, and modern web development

• Enjoy thinking about why a feature should exist, not just how to implement it

• Are curious about users and willing to speak directly with the people using what you build

• Can turn an ambiguous problem into a practical first version

• Care about product quality while recognizing when speed and iteration are more valuable than perfection

• Communicate clearly with both technical and nontechnical teammates

• Take ownership and follow work through to completion

• Are excited to work closely with a small team in our SoHo office

• Have an interest in startups, local businesses, social media, marketplaces, or the creator economy

A computer science or engineering degree is welcome, but it is not required when your projects and experience demonstrate the necessary skills. Previous full‑time software engineering employment is also not required.

Nice to Have

• Experience with React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, or PostgreSQL

• Experience building internal tools, dashboards, or workflow automations

• Familiarity with product analytics, funnel analysis, experimentation, or A/B testing

• Experience integrating third‑party APIs

• Experience using AI coding tools or building with language‑model APIs

• Previous experience at an early‑stage startup

• A project that has been used by real customers or users

• Familiarity with influencer marketing, social platforms, restaurants, or local commerce

What Success Looks Like

• Learn how brands, creators, and Storytime’s internal teams use the platform

• Ship your first meaningful production improvement

• Take ownership of a feature from problem definition through release

• Build something that saves our team time or removes friction for our users

• Use feedback and product data to improve something after its initial launch

• Become a trusted engineering partner to both technical and go‑to‑market teammates

What We Offer

• The opportunity to help shape the future of local influencer marketing

• Meaningful ownership over products used by real businesses and creators

• Direct access to and mentorship from Storytime’s founders and leadership team

• A steep learning curve across engineering, product, growth, and startup operations

• The ability to see the direct impact of what you build

• Competitive base compensation and equity

• Healthcare benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage

• A collaborative, in‑person environment in SoHo

• The opportunity to work with leading creators, restaurants, and consumer brands