Substack
substack.com
Actively hiring
Content Creation
Media & Entertainment
Publishing
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Overview
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials
Funding and backers
Total raised
$87.4M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$3.3M
Venture round · May 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
The money's age
Long since its last round
40 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
381912
best: 1652 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2023 | $3.3M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Apr 2021 | $65M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jul 2019 | $19.1M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Substack Inc. | sec |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Christopher BestExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Substack over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
5
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
JavaScript
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$260k
Typical range
$260k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $260k | $260k |
Highest paying role
Full Stack Software Engineer - Community
$260k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Christopher Best
Executive Officer, Director
Hamish McKenzie
Director
Andrew Chen
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
70 days
faster than 22% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~11 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added JavaScript to stack
Aug 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Aug 2026
Added React.js to stack
Aug 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack
Aug 2026
Added SQL to stack
Jul 2026
Added Python to stack
Jul 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 100% remote 200-500 est. staff $260k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Jobs
$140k – $260k per year • Remote (United States, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
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