Substack

Substack’s mission is to build a new economic engine for culture. As a member of Substack’s Core product team, you will be responsible for building mobile features for Substack – improving discovery, building community spaces and tools, running A/B tests on key user flows, and maintaining our product experience. Engineers at Substack work in close partnership with designers, product thinkers, and customers to make it easier than ever for writers and creators to make a living. 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 $185,000 - $210,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. Responsibilities Develop features that help grow the Substack app and ecosystem. On Android, we use Kotlin and all the latest Google-approved technologies (i.e. Jetpack Compose, Room, Coroutines, etc.).  Collaborate with other Android engineers at Substack to define architectural patterns and ship new features for the Android client. 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. Work directly with customers to solve their problems. Requirements At least 5+ years of software engineering experience. Experience shipping high quality Android apps. 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 new economic engine for culture. Previous experience working in a startup environment and experience or interest in full stack or web development is a plus, but not required. On the web, we work with JavaScript, especially Node/Express and React, and Postgres. Experience in these technologies is a bonus but not required—if you're interested, we'll be excited to help you learn. Substack is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or transgender status), age, national origin, veteran or disability status. We’re seeking people passionate about enabling independent expression and building a better business model for creators. If you want to see what media, communities, and content can become when unmoored from advertising models, and you have the skills and experience to contribute, we’d love to meet you. Please see our Privacy Notice for details regarding Substack's collection and use of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking here.

Substack Substack lets writers connect with their audience on their own terms and earn money doing it. We make it simple for writers to publish to an email list that they own, get discovered on the web, and charge for subscriptions.   More than 5 million people pay to subscribe to writers across the Substack network, and the top writers make millions of dollars a year. Substack’s model depends on the success of writers using Substack – we only make money when they do.   Make something that matters Great writing is valuable. It respects readers' time, their intelligence, and their trust. It helps us make sense of and change the culture we live in. At Substack, we're building a business model that enables great writing to thrive. Learn more about our opportunity and mission.    We are a small but growing team, and there is more to build than we could ever imagine. That’s why we need you.   Every person at the company participates in customer support. We do this to build empathy with our users and enable us to build better products.   We believe that a diverse team will help us build a product that best serves the needs of a wildly diverse ecosystem of writers. So whatever your background or perspective, we’d welcome your input to help build the best possible version of Substack. Engineering at Substack Full Stack Engineers at Substack are responsible for the core product platform, from frontend UI and testing, to APIs, low-level services, and database operations. Full Stack Engineers work in close partnership with designers, product thinkers, and customers directly to build out new product offerings and tooling across the platform. They are on the front-lines of product development and are responsible for creating what’s next for Substack. Responsibilities Develop the core Substack product for readers and writers. This is a dynamic organization with needs across the board. We expect that engineers can jump into any area of the product, learn quickly and add value. Scale systems to handle ever-increasing load and a fast-growing ecosystem of writers and readers.  Contribute to the whole product process in collaboration 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 deliver high-quality solutions. Work directly with customers to solve their problems. The entire company (CEO included) participates in customer support in order to drive empathy for our users and help us build better products. We work with JavaScript, 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. Can contribute across the full web stack, but may have a deeper passion for certain technologies and systems. 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.   Substack is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We're seeking people passionate about enabling independent expression and building a better business model for creators. If you want to see what media, communities, and content can become when unmoored from advertising models, and you have the skills and experience to contribu

Our Mission The Substack mission is to build a new economic engine for culture. We believe that by working with culture makers to build this engine, we can do more than simply halt a decline; we can contribute to a system that can be better than any in history—a system where there is growth instead of decay, where people have more power than unaligned algorithms or mad kings, and where the central currency is trust. Growth Team As a member of Substack’s Growth team, you will be responsible for building features that bring writers to Substack and help them succeed here – making improvements to discovery, internationalizing language and payments on Substack, strengthening Substack’s network of readers and writers, and running A/B tests on key user flows. Growth engineers work in close partnership with designers, product thinkers, and customers to make it easier than ever for writers to make a living. 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 $175,000 - $215,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. Responsibilities Develop features that help writers make more money on Substack. 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. Work directly with customers to solve their problems. The entire company (CEO included) participates in customer support in order to drive empathy for our users and help us build better products. We work with JavaScript, 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. 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 is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or transgender status), age, national origin, veteran or disability status. We’re seeking people passionate about enabling independent expression and building a better business model for creators. If you want to see what media, communities, and content can become when unmoored from advertising models, and you have the skills and experience to contribute, we’d love to meet you.