Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Substack is building an independent publishing platform that gives creators economic autonomy, creative ownership, and direct connections with their audiences. As a member of the Activation team, the Full Stack Software Engineer will build and test features that attract and retain readers and creators, improve growth metrics, and support content discovery and creator success.
Responsibilities
- Develop features that help writers make more money on Substack
- Design and run experiments to improve sign-up conversion, first-action completion, and D1 / D7 retention, with particular attention to users arriving from different surfaces (organic search, App Store browse, creator-shared links, paid campaigns)
- Build tools and features to help new creators find an audience and build a publishing habit
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Believe in Substack's mission to build a better business model for writing
- Experience at a fast-growing startup or working on a high-performing growth team is not required, but is a plus
Benefits
- Equity for all full time roles
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