Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Ghost, a rapidly growing data-driven distribution platform, as a Senior Software Engineer. You will play a key role in building and scaling our platform to support our expanding customer base. This role requires a strong technical background, experience with our tech stack (NestJS, ReactJS, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS), and a collaborative spirit. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality code, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to technical discussions. The position offers a remote-friendly option for select states and a competitive salary range of $165,000 - $200,000. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on a dynamic startup.

Requirements

• 5 - 7 years as a software engineer at a high-growth startup
• Proficiency in Ghost’s current tech stack: NestJS, ReactJS, Typescript, postgreSQL, Redis, AWS
• Ability to listen: Shows genuine interest in understanding customers' needs, asks questions, and thinks answers through
• Effective communication: Brings you along for the ride, and you can follow a coherent message. Writes and speaks efficiently; doesn’t sugarcoat a message; you don’t feel like you have to interrupt to go to the next question
• An individual contributor: Hands on, collaborative, and proficient in their craft
• Data-driven: outcomes to validate their work
• Passion: Genuine interest in the problems we are solving

Responsibilities

• Help build the platform from the ground up to serve the growing customer ecosystem
• Deliver outcomes by understanding business needs and producing quality code to scale the existing business
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with engineering and product to meet milestones to build and ship systems to serve customers
• Create a knowledge-sharing environment where code reviews and design discussions are the norm
• Speak up and contribute to collaborative technical discussions with leadership
• Deliver scalable technical solutions to solve business needs
• Solve complex technical problems and build scalable solutions for business/customer needs
• Lead and evangelize engineering best practices
• Produce high-quality code, perform code reviews, help with architecture and design, and introduce technical best practices (testing, monitoring, etc.)
• Coach/mentor mid-level engineers as the team grows
• Influence and alignment - Ability to communicate technical ideas across teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Growth mindset: Eagerness to embrace unknown scenarios; bias towards learning
• Scrappiness: Enjoys taking initiative; doesn’t need to gather a team around them to get things done. Embrace a “done is better than perfect” mindset, knowing things can improve over multiple iterations

Benefits

• Remote-friendly option for these states: NY, CA, WA, NJ, AL, IL, TX, NV, PA, CO
• Total compensation: $165,000 - $200,000