As a member of Substack's Activation team, you will be responsible for building and testing features that bring new readers to Substack and help them discover things they love - making improvements to discovery, onboarding, notifications, and recommendations on Substack and running A/B tests on key user flows. Engineers work in close partnership with designers, product thinkers, and our users to make it easier than ever for creators to make a living.
Responsibilities- Work closely with data and design teams to conceptualize and create features and experiments that serve Substack's consumers.
- 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.
Requirements- At least 5+ years of software engineering experience. Data Engineering and ML background is a plus.
- 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.
Substack's compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, and exceptional benefits. Our cash compensation salary range for this role is $140,000 - $260,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
