Full Stack Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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 interne

What the job involves

• Subscription payments are the heart of Substack’s product and business model
• Everything we do is based on the idea that creators can and should be paid directly by their audience, instead of relying on attention capture and advertising
• And we believe that creators themselves should own these payment relationships, without being tied to any platform, including ours
• We are a small team with outsized impact and ownership
• We take on both the traditional payments engineering : integrating with payment processors, managing the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars in subscription revenue, and also the full stack feature development that drives those payments
• This means a wide variety of projects, including building brand new payout systems, A/B testing the subscribe flow, and shipping features like gift subscriptions
• Develop the core payment surfaces and backend systems on Substack
• 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. It’s helpful if you know these technologies already; if not, we’ll be excited to help you learn
• We also work with payment processors, including Stripe. Again, experience here is beneficial but not required

Benefits

• Remote work support - All employees receive a generous allowance to customize their home offices
• Comprehensive health care - Substack covers 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents, and fully funds HRA plans
• Parental leave - We want employees to be fully present for the new members of their family, so we offer generous parental leave
• Flexible vacation and paid time off - You’re the best person to decide when you need a day—or a week—off to travel or decompress. Our flexible vacation policy puts you in control
• Company holidays and Winter shutdown - In addition to flexible time off, we honor 12 paid holidays annually on average. And we close the office between Christmas Eve and New Year's day to recharge each year
• Phone & internet stipends - Many of our employees work from home or on the go. So we offer full time employees a monthly stipend to cover for phone and internet costs