Staff Product Engineer
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Job Description
Staff Product Engineer building Ghost's open source publishing platform. Shipping JavaScript products and leading technical decisions within a distributed remote team.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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
Benefits:
- 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










