Full Stack Software Engineer - Payments
San Francisco (HQ) · New York · Remote · USD 140,000-260,000 · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco (HQ) · New York · Remote
- Salary
- USD 140,000-260,000
About the role
- Substack is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Payments Team in San Francisco, New York, or remotely.
- Subscription payments are the heart of Substack’s product and business model, driving the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars in subscription revenue.
- The role involves building brand new payout systems, A/B testing the subscribe flow, and shipping features like gift subscriptions.
Responsibilities
- Develop the core payment surfaces and backend systems on Substack.
- Own your work and deliver high-quality solutions from product concept and proposal to implementation, experimentation, and measurement.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping web applications.
- Independent and autonomous.
- Strong product sense and intuition.
- Passionate about building a better business model for the internet.
Benefits
- market competitive salary
- equity for all full time roles
- exceptional benefits
Skills
- TypeScript
- Node
- Express
- React
- Postgres
- Stripe
