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Substack · 8 hours ago

Full Stack Web Engineer - Growth

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$140K/yr - $260K/yr
date5+ years exp

Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, empowering creators with their own publishing platform. As a member of Substack’s Activation team, you will develop features to enhance user discovery and onboarding, while collaborating closely with designers and product thinkers.

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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

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

Qualification

TypeScriptNode/ExpressReactPostgresSoftware engineering experienceAutonomyHigh standardsPride in productBelief in missionCollaboration

Required

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

Preferred

Experience at a fast-growing startup or working on a high-performing growth team

Benefits

Equity for all full time roles
Exceptional benefits

Company

Substack

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Substack is a subscription-based newsletter publishing platform for independent writers.
dateFounded in 2017
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.substack.com

H1B Sponsorship

Substack has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (8)
2024 (1)
2022 (3)
2021 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$200.23M
Key Investors
Andreessen HorowitzFifty YearsY Combinator
2025-07-17Series C· $100M
2024-11-12Series Unknown· $10M
2023-05-26Equity Crowdfunding· $7.81M

Leadership Team

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Hamish McKenzie
Co-founder and Chief Writing Officer
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Jairaj Sethi
CTO
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Recent News

Digital Trends
You can now enjoy Substack on a TV, if that’s your idea of fun times
2026-01-24
The Verge
Substack is launching a TV app, and not everyone is happy
2026-01-23
9to5mac
Newsletter platform Substack now has an Apple TV app
2026-01-23
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