Senior Software Engineer - Creator Growth and Monetization

Senior Software Engineer - Creator Growth and Monetization Kit https://kit.com/ is an email-first operating system for creators who mean business. We help creators grow and monetize their audience with ease. For coaches, YouTubers, authors, podcasters, and other creatives, there isn't a better marketing hub to rely on to grow audiences, automate email marketing, and sell digital products — all within one platform. More importantly, there isn't a team more committed to helping creators earn a living. We're on a mission to help creators earn $1 billion using our creator marketing platform. We have always been 100% independent and 100% remote. We are proud to have built a product that our customers love, and we look for people who have enthusiasm and belief in our mission, vision, and values to join our team. We're also embracing AI thoughtfully — both in how we build and how we hire to ensure our team is adaptable, innovative, and ready for what's next. THE ROLE We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build the products that help creators grow their audience and monetize their work at scale. You'll be joining the Network Squad, which owns Creator Growth through recommendation products https://kit.com/features/recommendations and Creator Monetization via our Newsletter Sponsorships https://help.kit.com/en/articles/8532157-monetizing-your-emails-with-kit-ads and Commerce platforms https://kit.com/features/commerce. We build products where network effects drive value—as more creators participate, everyone benefits. Your work directly impacts how thousands of creators find their audience and earn a living, with measurable outcomes like 2x faster audience growth for creators using our recommendation network. This is a hands-on role for a product-minded engineer with strong product engineering skills and front-end experience. You'll work across the full stack—from React frontends to our Rails backend and analytics systems—and you care deeply about creating great user experiences. You partner well with Design and Product throughout the design process, contributing to early concepts, refining rough ideas, and breaking down ambitious features into iterative deliverables that ship value to creators sooner. You contribute to scoping conversations, help identify MVPs, and support iterative release planning so creators benefit throughout the development process, not just at the end. You're data-driven and contribute to product improvements while bringing modern approaches to performance and user experience. You're proficient with AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and leverage them to broaden your impact. YOUR SUPPORT SYSTEM You'll report to Mark Southard https://www.linkedin.com/in/msouthard/ who leads the Network Squad, a cross-functional product team at Kit. You'll collaborate closely with a Product Manager, Product Designer, and peer Software Engineers. You'll also have access to a group of Engineers across Kit for support and mentorship, and will start with a peer onboarding buddy who will help you navigate our systems and codebase. WHAT YOU'LL DO - First Week: Dive into our codebase and learn how our growth and monetization products work. Set up your local environment and merge your first production code. Take part in Get To Know You's (GTKYs) to meet our distributed team. - First Month: Drive your own ramp-up by learning our product and codebase with the goal of delivering something meaningful to creators by month's end. Understand how our recommendation and monetization products support creators, and how our systems—from Rails backend to React frontend, and our ClickHouse analytics layer—work together. Join team activities for planning, building, and measuring. Actively participate in code reviews, and contribute to PRs weekly. - First Six Months: Own and deliver multiple complex features from concept to launch. Improve our codebase through thoughtful refactoring while maintaining qualit ... (truncated, view full listing at source)