Staff Product Engineer at Ghost

What we're looking for  🔎

For this position, we’re specifically looking for senior JavaScript engineers with a strong track record of shipping large-scale, production-ready projects and working effectively within teams.

You should be confident in taking a broad brief, defining technical solutions, navigating architectural tradeoffs and driving projects from inception to completion with a high level of autonomy. Beyond just writing great code, we expect senior engineers to provide technical leadership and help set best practices that enable the whole team to succeed.

We're looking for candidates in a timezone between UTC-5 to UTC+3.

Node and/or React experience are key to working on Ghost. Experience working with other parts of our stack is a bonus, particularly Knex, Express and Handlebars. You'll need a decent grasp on MySQL and a good understanding of modern CI/CD practices. Any other experience with startups, SaaS, open source, distributed applications or remote work is also very valuable.

We place a strong emphasis on collaboration, mentorship, and enabling others to do their best work. As part of our team, you’ll be expected to actively share knowledge, provide thoughtful code reviews, and help create an environment where everyone can grow. Whether it’s pairing with a teammate on a tough problem, improving documentation, or mentoring other engineers. A willingness to give and receive feedback, communicate openly, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning is essential to success in this role.

One of the major perks of engineering at Ghost is that almost every single thing you work on will be released as open source under the MIT license. So you’re not just writing code for us, you’re writing it for yourself and for everyone else - both now, and in the future. Instead of spending years doing work will eventually be locked away in a box labelled “intellectual property” — you'll get to write code which is open for anyone to use, including you in your own future projects!

People who are great at written communication and highly self-motivated tend to do best at Ghost. The majority of our team is made up of former founders, freelancers and self-starters who are confident and comfortable working independently and getting things done.

This role would be well suited to someone who is experienced at building/shipping products, looking for a big/interesting thing to work on with a great international team and a healthy work/life balance.

All Product Engineers at Ghost are part of on-call rotations as part of taking responsibility for our work.

We value diversity of all types at Ghost and our team is made up of a kind, thoughtful group of people with a wide range of backgrounds. We have as many people who speak German as we do English, some of us are single, others are married, while others are parents. We actively try to find people with different perspectives and experiences to the ones we already have. Women and minorities of any description are especially encouraged to apply!

What it's like to work here:

We work remotely from all over the world! Most of our communication happens on Slack and Notion, with meetings held via Google Meet

The biggest perk of working at Ghost is that we have a small, talented team with a very large audience. This means you have the ability to have a huge impact on the product and the company, whilst also having interesting and challenging problems to work on. We believe deeply in what we do, and we're all in this to build something lasting, sustainable and positive.

Salary & benefits

The starting salary range for this position is $140,000 to $180,000 USD. Most offers we make fall somewhere in the middle of the range. The exact offer will be determined by a combination of your experience, and our interview process.