We're a non-profit organization on a mission to create modern, independent publishing technology to power the future of online journalism.
This is not a rocket-ship. You won't find any unicorn glitter or exponential curves around here, just a real company with a sustainable business which has been profitable from year 1 and has been growing healthily ever since. Currently our annual revenue is $10,000,000+. We're very transparent about our mission and our metrics, you can read all about us.
Ghost is a full stack web application for running independent publications. It’s one of the most popular modern open source projects in the world, and is used in production by tens of thousands of websites and companies.
Chances are you've already visited and read sites which run on Ghost! Our users range from renowned publications like 404 Media, Platformer, Tangle News, to prominent tech companies like YCombinator, First Round Review, Cloudflare and Kickstarter, and many, many more.
This role is open to candidates in time zones between UTC−1 and UTC+3.
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.
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 Linear, 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.
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.
On top of that, we offer a range of benefits...
💵 Competitive salary Based on role, skill, experience and location.
🌍 Work from anywhere Everything we do is online. As long as you have wifi, you're all set.
💻 Hardware A brand new MacBook Pro + a budget for office setup and the latest AI tools.
🏢 Co-working If you prefer to work from a co-working space, we'll help pay for it.
📚 Continue your personal development A budget for attending conferences, taking courses, and purchasing books.
✈️ Worldwide team trips The last few trips have taken us to the UK, Spain & Italy.
📅 4-day work weeks We close the office on Fridays. Enjoy!
🏝 Generous paid vacation We want everyone to have proper time off. We even shut down for two weeks over Christmas.
👶 Paid parental leave When the time comes to welcome a new member of the family, we offer generous and fully paid parental leave.
📈 Pay reviews Everyone at Ghost receives an annual pay review against market rates, so your compensation can grow alongside your experience and impact.
🐶 Dog friendly office ...just kidding we literally don't have an office. So, um. Feel free to work with your dog. Cats are cool, too.
Our hiring process and timeline can vary from role to role, but typically you can expect:
Step 1: We'll review your application against the needs of team.
Step 2: A video call with a member of the operations team so we can get to know each other a little better. It's an informal call, there's nothing to prepare.
Step 3: A second video call, usually with the hiring manager. This call has a more technical focus and gives you the opportunity to find out what might be like to be a member of the Ghost team.
Step 4: A third video call will be with a member of our Leadership Team. During this call, we'd like you to share your screen and pair program with them.
Step 5: A paid trial project - typically 15 hours of work. This provides a great opportunity to understand what it's like to work at Ghost.
Step 6: A fourth video call to review your trial project.
Step 7: A final interview with one of our Leadership Team.
Step 8: An offer 🎉.
We receive a lot of applications for each position. A real human member of the Ghost team will review every one, so take your time - we care about the details. We especially encourage applications from women and people from underrepresented groups.
If this role isn't right for you, but you're interested in hearing about other roles that open up in future, you can subscribe to our careers mailing list! We never use this list for any promotional emails, marketing, or anything else.
We're a non-profit organization on a mission to create modern, independent publishing technology to power the future of online journalism.
This is not a rocket-ship. You won't find any unicorn glitter or exponential curves around here, just a real company with a sustainable business which has been profitable from year 1 and has been growing healthily ever since. Currently our annual revenue is $10,000,000+. We're very transparent about our mission and our metrics, you can read all about us.
Ghost is a full stack web application for running independent publications. It’s one of the most popular modern open source projects in the world, and is used in production by tens of thousands of websites and companies.
Chances are you've already visited and read sites which run on Ghost! Our users range from renowned publications like 404 Media, Platformer, Tangle News, to prominent tech companies like YCombinator, First Round Review, Cloudflare and Kickstarter, and many, many more.
This role is open to candidates in time zones between UTC−5 and UTC+3.
Most “Senior Support Engineer” roles are a polite way of saying “answer harder tickets”. This isn’t that role. This is a role for someone who wants to be the support to support. You’ll think in processes, and have an interest in products. Support will be your product, and our brilliant support team will be your customers.
Ghost(Pro) is growing, our customers are getting more sophisticated, and the ticket queue is growing with them. The support team prides itself on its relationships with publishers, and would never want to just let a chat bot take the stage for them, but we’re also an intentionally small team and we want to focus our time where it delivers the most value.
We need someone who will walk in, look at how support actually works, and start removing the work through better tooling, smarter automations, sensible use of AI, sharper docs, and the occasional bug fix that stops a category of tickets at the source.
The bias we want is towards reducing future tickets, not just clearing today’s. Optimising the team should come before getting bogged down in the queue. Yes, you’ll still answer tickets — that’s how you stay close to the customer and spot the patterns worth fixing — but a successful first six months looks like the team handling more, faster, with the same number of humans, accelerating our publishers’ success, and feeling great about it.
🛠 Make Support more efficient. Audit our workflows, tooling, automations, routing, knowledge base, and metrics. Find the leaks. Fix them. Build internal tools and integrations where buying isn’t the right answer.
🤖 Use AI where it earns its keep. Deploy automations and AI assistance (for triage, drafting, summarisation, internal search, classification — whatever moves the needle) without shipping any slop that erodes customer trust. You’ll be the person who decides where AI is genuinely better, and where a human reply is still the right call.
🐛 Squash bugs that are in our way. When a recurring issue keeps generating tickets and the product team is heads-down on a roadmap item, we don’t want to divert their attention. You’ll pick up small-to-medium bug fixes in the Ghost codebase yourself, get them reviewed and shipped, and unblock publishers quickly.
🎟 Answer tickets — selectively and well. You’ve come up through support, or stepped across from product engineering, because you love puzzles. We’ll save you the best ones. Help us understand the difficult cases, fix what you can, triage and assign issues for what you can’t, and coach colleagues to do the same.
We’re looking for a senior individual contributor (5+ years of relevant experience) who can take a project from “this is annoying” to “this is fixed” without needing a manager to break it down for them.
You’ll likely tick most of these boxes:
Real support engineering experience at a technical SaaS product. You’ve handled a queue, owned tooling, and shipped improvements that have made your colleagues’ days easier and more fun. You’ve most likely worked with B2B products (bonus points for experience with publishing or email software).
Comfortable in our stack. Ghost is a full-stack JavaScript app. You don’t need to be expert in all of it on day one, but you should be able to read the code, fix small things, and ramp up fast.
You build things to remove your own work. Scripts, internal tools, automations, integrations between Front, Linear and the rest of our support stack. You don’t wait for someone to build the thing for you.
Practical AI fluency. You’ve actually deployed LLM-powered workflows in a support or operations context. You have opinions about where they help and where they hurt, and you can tell the difference between a demo and something safe to put in front of customers.
A genuinely clear writer. We’re a remote team that runs on writing. Tickets, internal docs, incident write-ups, bug reports, Slack messages — it all needs to be clear, honest and short.
Low ego, high autonomy. You’re comfortable being the only person who owns a thing, and equally comfortable being told your idea isn’t the right one. You don’t need a lot of process to get moving, and you don’t create a lot of process for others.
An interest in digital publishing and journalism. Our customers are writers, newsrooms and creators who depend on Ghost to make a living. Caring about what they do matters.
Prior open-source contributions, especially to a project of comparable scale.
Experience with email deliverability — newsletters are a big part of what Ghost does.
Familiarity with Stripe, membership/subscription billing edge cases.
You’ve run your own publication on Ghost (or somewhere else).
What it's like to work here:
You’ll sit inside the Support team, working alongside our established support engineers. You’ll have a close working relationship with the Migrations team (who help new customers move to Ghost) and with our on-call engineers (who pick up the genuinely-broken-in-production things). The roles overlap at the edges — being friendly and useful across those boundaries matters as much as being good at your own job.
We work remotely from all over the world. Most of our communication happens in Slack, Linear and Front, with the occasional Google Meet. Most people at Ghost have one or two calls a week, not one or two a day.
There’s no on-call rotation for this role — that lives with our platform team and product engineers. Your job is to reduce the work that’s reaching the queue in the first place, and to handle the support-side work brilliantly when it does.
Almost everything you build will go out under an open-source licence. The fixes you ship to Ghost itself live in public, on GitHub, with your name on them.
The starting salary range for this position is $90,000 to $130,000 USD. Most offers we make fall somewhere in the middle of the range, and the exact offer depends on a combination of your experience and our interview process.
On top of that, we offer a range of benefits...
💵 Competitive salary Based on role, skill, experience and location.
🌍 Work from anywhere Everything we do is online. As long as you have wifi, you're all set.
💻 Hardware A brand new MacBook Pro + a budget for office setup and the latest AI tools.
🏢 Co-working If you prefer to work from a co-working space, we'll help pay for it.
📚 Continue your personal development A budget for attending conferences, taking courses, and purchasing books.
✈️ Worldwide team trips The last few trips have taken us to the UK, Spain & Italy.
📅 4-day work weeks We close the office on Fridays. Enjoy!
🏝 Generous paid vacation We want everyone to have proper time off. We even shut down for two weeks over Christmas.
👶 Paid parental leave When the time comes to welcome a new member of the family, we offer generous and fully paid parental leave.
📈 Pay reviews Everyone at Ghost receives an annual pay review against market rates, so your compensation can grow alongside your experience and impact.
🐶 Dog friendly office ...just kidding we literally don't have an office. So, um. Feel free to work with your dog. Cats are cool, too.
Our hiring process and timeline can vary from role to role, but typically you can expect:
Step 1: We'll review your application against the needs of team.
Step 2: A video call with a member of the operations team so we can get to know each other a little better. It's an informal call, there's nothing to prepare.
Step 3: A second video call, usually with the hiring manager. This call has a more technical focus and gives you the opportunity to find out what might be like to be a member of the Ghost team.
Step 4: A third video call will be with a member of our Support Team.
Step 5: A paid trial project - typically 15 hours of work. This provides a great opportunity to understand what it's like to work at Ghost.
Step 6: A fourth video call to review your trial project.
Step 7: A final interview.
Step 8: An offer 🎉.
We receive a lot of applications for each position. A real human member of the Ghost team will review every one, so take your time - we care about the details. We especially encourage applications from women and people from underrepresented groups.
If this role isn't right for you, but you're interested in hearing about other roles that open up in future, you can subscribe to our careers mailing list! We never use this list for any promotional emails, marketing, or anything else.