Founding Software Engineer

Storytime is building the platform where local businesses and creators grow together. We connect restaurants, cafés, fitness studios, retailers and other neighborhood brands with authentic local creators. Our technology makes it easy for businesses to launch, manage and measure influencer campaigns while helping creators discover opportunities with places they genuinely love.

We are a fast-growing, early-stage company with a fully custom technology platform and a small team based in SoHo, New York City.

Founding Engineer

Location:

SoHo, New York City

Employment Type:

Full-time, in-person

Storytime is building the platform where local businesses and creators grow together. We connect restaurants, cafés, fitness studios, retailers and other neighborhood brands with authentic local creators. Our technology makes it easy for businesses to launch, manage and measure influencer campaigns while helping creators discover opportunities with places they genuinely love.

We are a fast-growing, early-stage company with a fully custom technology platform and a small team based in SoHo, New York City.

We’re hiring a founding engineer to help build Storytime’s product and engineering function from the ground up.

You’ll work directly with Storytime’s founders on what we build and why, then own the work from first sketch to production. You’ll make architectural decisions that last, write a large share of the code, and set the habits, standards and culture that future engineers will join.

This is a generalist role. In a given month you might ship a feature for brands, rebuild a creator workflow, automate an internal process, prototype an AI-powered feature and track down a production issue. There won’t be a spec waiting for you. You’ll talk to customers and teammates, decide what matters, ship it, and measure whether it worked.

Areas you may own include:

• The core brand experience: signing up, creating campaigns and launching creator collaborations
• Creator discovery, matching, participation and content approval
• Campaign reporting and analytics that show brands what their campaigns achieved
• Internal tools and automation that let our partnerships, community, support and campaign teams do more with less manual work
• Practical AI-powered features, from first prototype to reliable product
• Our iOS app and the mobile experience for creators and brands
• Platform foundations: architecture, data model, performance, reliability, testing and observability

• Own major product areas end to end: discovery, design, implementation, release and iteration
• Shape the platform’s architecture and technical direction, making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and durability
• Work across the stack: web and mobile interfaces, backend services, APIs, data and infrastructure
• Partner with the founders on product strategy, roadmap and priorities
• Talk directly with brands, creators and internal teams to turn real problems into software
• Instrument what you ship and use data to decide what to build next
• Set engineering standards for code quality, code review, testing, deployment and incident response
• Help hire, onboard and mentor the engineers who join after you
• Fix root causes rather than patching symptoms

We run a fully custom platform. Today it includes Type Script and React, Node.js, Bun and Go, Swift for iOS, GraphQL and HTTP APIs, and PostgreSQL.

The stack is a means, not a requirement. We care far more about how you think, what you’ve built and how fast you learn than about prior experience with any particular tool, and you’ll help decide where the stack goes next.

You would be a strong fit if you:

• Have built and shipped software that real people use,…