Full Stack Software Engineer - Community

Substack
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 140,000 - 260,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Autonomy","Collaboration","Product-mindedness","Ownership","Leadership"]

Join Substack’s Community Team to build frontend and backend features that help creators manage their communities and connect with readers. You’ll collaborate across designers, writers, and support staff, own your work from concept to deployment, work with TypeScript, Node/Express, React, and Postgres, and contribute to products used by millions of users.

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Full Stack Software Engineer - Community

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Job Summary

Join Substack’s Community Team to build frontend and backend features that help creators manage their communities and connect with readers. You’ll collaborate across designers, writers, and support staff, own your work from concept to deployment, work with TypeScript, Node/Express, React, and Postgres, and contribute to products used by millions of users.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build frontend and backend (and sometimes mobile) features that help creators manage their communities, and users connect more deeply within these communities.
  • •Collaborate with designers, writers, support staff, and many others. From product concept and research to implementation and deployment, we expect you to own your work and operate autonomously.
  • •We work with TypeScript, especially Node/Express and React, and Postgres. It’s helpful if you know these technologies already; if not, we’ll be excited to help you learn.
  • •Take pride in building elegant and delightful product experiences. Substack works best when it gets out of the way so writers can focus on writing and connecting with their readers.
  • •Believe in Substack’s mission to build a better business model for writing.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 140,000 - 260,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •At least 3+ years of software engineering experience.
  • •Independent and autonomous. We’re too small to micromanage, and expect that every person at the company owns their work and can be a leader.
  • •Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working on production systems.
  • •Take pride in building elegant and delightful product experiences. Substack works best when it gets out of the way so writers can focus on writing and connecting with their readers.
  • •Enjoy collaboration with a diverse group of thinkers while bringing our own unique experience and background to the team.
Experience:3+ yearsStartupsGrowth
Skills:AutonomyCollaborationProduct-mindednessOwnershipLeadership
Tech Stack:TypeScriptNodeExpressReactPostgreSQL

Company Brief

Substack
Provides a platform for writers to publish subscription-based newsletters, manage paid subscriptions, and connect directly with readers through email and web publishing tools.
Industry: Publishing
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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