Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Substack as an Engineering Manager and lead the development of Substack apps for creators and their audiences. You will play a key role in shaping product vision, scaling systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This position requires significant software engineering management experience, a passion for building diverse teams, and experience with social/media networks. You will work directly with customers, contribute to the full web stack, and be a leader within a fast-growing company. Substack offers a competitive salary, equity, and exceptional benefits. The role demands independence, high standards, and a belief in Substack's mission.

Requirements

• At least 3+ years of software engineering management experience
• Passion for recruiting and building healthy, diverse teams
• Experience in building social and/or media networks
• 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

Responsibilities

• Lead a team that develops Substack apps for creators and their audiences
• Engage in strategic product vision and direction-setting with your team, peers, and company leadership
• 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
• Partner with product and engineering leaders across the organization on team-wide initiatives and strategy
• Collaborate with Substack’s recruiting team to hire and retain great engineers

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Market competitive salary
• Equity for all full time roles
• Exceptional benefits
• Our cash compensation salary range for this role is $225,000 to $265,000/year