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💎 Seniority level: Manager, At least 3+ years of software engineering management experience.

📍 Location: San Francisco, California

💸 Salary: 225000.0 - 265000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Publishing

🏢 Company: Substack👥 51-100💰 $7,809,219 Crowdfunding over 1 year ago🫂 Last layoff over 2 years agoPublishingMedia and EntertainmentNewsContent CreatorsSubscription Service

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: At least 3+ years of software engineering management experience.

🪄 Skills: LeadershipNode.jsPostgreSQLSoftware DevelopmentReact

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 deeper passion for certain technologies.
  • Independent and autonomous.
  • Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working on production systems.
  • Take pride in building elegant and delightful product experiences.
  • Enjoy collaboration with a diverse group of thinkers.
  • Believe in Substack’s mission to build a better business model for writing.
  • Technologies: JavaScript, Node/Express, React, Postgres.
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.
  • Work directly with customers to solve their problems and drive empathy.
  • 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.
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