Full Stack Software Engineer - Growth
Hybrid (San Francisco (HQ)), Hybrid (New York), Hybrid (Remote)$140k - $260kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Full Stack Engineer on Substack’s Activation team focused on driving growth by bringing new readers and creators to Substack, improving sign-up conversion, retention, and helping creators find an audience.
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.
Qualifications
- 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.
Skills
Required:TypeScript, Node/Express, ReactDatabaseCollaboration
Benefits
- market competitive salary
- equity for all full time roles
- exceptional benefits
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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