Engineering Manager

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 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. 

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for building out the next phase of Substack’s vision. Teams are responsible for development of features across iOS, Android, and web destinations. These destinations are central to the experience of using Substack, enabling new forms of online communities, discovery and engagement with the wider network of Substacks, and new forms of expression and creation for all users of Substack. 

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 leadership. 

- Scale systems to handle an 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. 

- We work with JavaScript, Typescript...