
2 - 10 employees
Founded 2016
📱 Media
📚 Education
💰 ACQUISITION on 2017-03
Media • Education
Indie Hackers is an online community and publishing platform for independent startup founders and makers. It hosts user-submitted posts, case studies, interviews, product and ideas databases, and discussion forums focused on building, launching, and growing profitable online businesses. Indie Hackers also offers a paid IH+ subscription with exclusive content and features, and serves as a resource hub where founders share tactics, lessons, and real-world revenue-focused stories.
🔥 2 hours ago
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $140k - $180k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🧑💻 Full-stack Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
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2 - 10 employees
Founded 2016
📱 Media
📚 Education
💰 ACQUISITION on 2017-03
Media • Education
Indie Hackers is an online community and publishing platform for independent startup founders and makers. It hosts user-submitted posts, case studies, interviews, product and ideas databases, and discussion forums focused on building, launching, and growing profitable online businesses. Indie Hackers also offers a paid IH+ subscription with exclusive content and features, and serves as a resource hub where founders share tactics, lessons, and real-world revenue-focused stories.
• Join Ghost's product team building and maintaining its full-stack open source publishing platform • Take broad briefs, define technical solutions, navigate architectural tradeoffs, and drive projects from inception to completion • Provide technical leadership and help establish engineering best practices • Ship large-scale, production-ready projects • Share knowledge and provide thoughtful code reviews • Pair with teammates on challenging problems • Improve documentation and mentor other engineers • Participate in on-call rotations • Work asynchronously through Slack and Linear, with meetings on Google Meet • Collaborate with a distributed international team to shape the product
• Senior JavaScript engineering experience • Strong track record of shipping large-scale, production-ready projects • Experience working effectively within teams • Ability to define technical solutions, navigate architectural tradeoffs, and drive projects from inception to completion autonomously • Node.js and/or React experience • Decent grasp of MySQL • Good understanding of modern CI/CD practices • Experience with Knex, Express, and Handlebars is a bonus • Experience with startups, SaaS, open source, distributed applications, or remote work is valuable • Strong written communication and self-motivation • Willingness to share knowledge, provide code reviews, mentor engineers, communicate openly, and give and receive feedback • Participation in on-call rotations
• Competitive salary based on role, skill, experience and location • Work from anywhere • Brand new MacBook Pro • Budget for office setup and latest AI tools • Co-working space support • Personal development budget for conferences, courses, and books • Worldwide team trips • 4-day work weeks; office closed on Fridays • Generous paid vacation • Two-week company shutdown over Christmas • Generous and fully paid parental leave • Annual pay reviews against market rates
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