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Full Stack Software Engineer - Payments

Substack · San Francisco (HQ) · Remote

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About Substack

The app for independent voices. Backed by General Catalyst, Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Own your work and deliver high-quality solutions from product concept and proposal to implementation, experimentation, and measurement. 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

More about this role

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 actually 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.

About the Payments Team

Subscription payments are the heart of Substack’s product and business model. Everything we do is based on the idea that creators can and should be paid directly by their audience, instead of relying on attention capture and advertising. And we believe that creators themselves should own these payment relationships, without being tied to any platform, including ours.

We are a small team with outsized impact and ownership. We take on both the traditional payments engineering : integrating with payment processors, managing the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars in subscription revenue, and...

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