Full Stack Software Engineer - Video

Substack • New York, NY

7d

About The Position

Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, giving the brightest, most interesting, and most creative people on the internet the power of their own publishing platform. The terms of our culture should not be set by gate-keeping legacy media or chaos-fueling social media, but by the people who make and participate in that culture. Substack’s model, based on direct subscriptions, has fueled an explosion of independent publishing. It empowers creators with economic autonomy, creative ownership, and a direct connection to their most engaged audiences.
As a Software Engineer at Substack, you are responsible for the core product platform, from APIs, low-level services, and database operations, to frontend UI and testing. On the Video team you’ll be working on live streaming, video and audio recording, podcasting, uploading, clipping, and everything related to an excellent video product experience. 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.

Requirements

• 4+ years of non-internship professional full stack web software development using Node.js
• Have a degree in Computer Science or have the equivalent industry experience.
• Independent and autonomous.
• Take pride in building elegant and delightful product experiences.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency with Python is an advantage
• Proficiency with video processing frameworks and libraries such as FFmpeg is an advantage
• Experience with workflow systems such as Temporal is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Develop the core Substack product for readers and writers.
• Support and collaborate with other team members, including engineers, designers, writers, support staff, and many others.
• Own your work and deliver high-quality solutions from product concept and proposal to implementation, experimentation, and measurement.
• Work directly with customers to solve their problems.
• Work with TypeScript, especially Node/Express and React, and Postgres.
• Stay on the leading edge of AI tooling, to both improve our internal workflows, as well as utilize them in product to improve publisher capabilities and experiences.

Benefits

• Market competitive salary
• Equity for all full time roles
• Exceptional benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree