Paperless Post is looking for a full-stack software engineer to help build product experiences that directly impact how we grow revenue. Our product has served more than 220 million hosts and guests and sees over 5 million unique visitors per month. You’ll work across our stack which includes Typescript, React, Next.js and GraphQL on the frontend, with services written mostly in Golang with sprinkles of Ruby running on top of PostgreSQL and MongoDB. We run on AWS with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform, and deploy with CircleCI and ArgoCD.

A little bit about us

The Paperless Post Engineering team, a highly collaborative group of developers and technologists, is charged with building and refining a consumer-facing product that millions of people interact with each month. Our individual feature teams each focus on a unique piece of the user experience and are made up of engineers, product managers, quality assurers, and product designers. We prioritize creativity and continuing education, and our ongoing commitment to quality code shows in our pragmatic but brave approach to technology.

About the Revenue Growth team

The Revenue Growth team owns how Paperless Post monetizes, everything from pay-as-you-go to our subscription business. We run experiments constantly throughout the full funnel, test and refine pricing models, and build systems to support payments and retention. We are a collaborative group of engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts who share a passion for data-driven decision making and measurable impact.

What you’ll do here

• Lead the design and implementation of features and systems that directly drive monetization
• Partner with product and design to define and run experiments, then help translate results into roadmap decisions
• Be hands-on across the full stack building features for our users and improving the scalability, reliability, and observability of pricing and other systems under the Revenue Growth team's ownership areas
• Mentor engineers and set strong technical and testing standards
• Ship A/B tests and be invested in the outcomes to improve conversion and retention through understanding user behavior
• Influence and align on architecture and guide technical decisions across teams.

What you bring to the table

• Empathy for the people who worked on the code base before you
• A passion for solving problems and building features for our users
• 7+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer in an established codebase
• A growth hacking mentality with curiosity to experiment, measure, and iterate quickly
• Expertise in Typescript & React and proficiency in GraphQL
• Expertise in Golang and proficiency in a dynamically typed language
• Deep understanding of relational databases like Postgres
• A track record of building resilient, observable, and well-tested distributed systems at scale
• Ability to influence architecture and guide technical decisions across teams
• Proficiency with AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot in your workflow
• Bonus points for experience with A/B testing, pricing and subscriptions, or payments

Company-wide, we enjoy an amazing ecosystem of an even gender split and a balance of engineers and designers. Because Paperless Post isn't supported by ad revenue, we can focus our efforts on creating and improving on the ideal version of our platform, product, content, and partnerships for our users. 

We are proud that Paperless Post has helped over 220 million people globally connect in the real world since our inception. Paperless Post exists to help all people celebrate all the moments that matter to them. We believe that having a team reflective of the diverse world around us empowers us to create a product that serves everyone. Women, people of color, trans/genderqueer individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply.

AI Usage Note

At Paperless Post, we value Being Resourceful, Progress Over Perfection, and being a Positive Force. Embracing thoughtful AI use is one way we put those values into practice. In our day-to-day work, we encourage teams to thoughtfully use AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot to move faster and think more creatively.

During interviews, our recruiting team may use AI-powered note-taking tools so we can stay focused on the conversation.

However, our interviews are designed to understand each candidate’s individual skills, problem-solving approach, and reasoning in real time. For that reason, unless explicitly requested and/or approved by the recruiting team, AI tools (including but not limited to generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.) may not be used during any interview sessions, including but not limited to:

-Recruiting phone interviews

-Technical screens 

-Live coding challenges

-System design interviews

-Take-home assignments

These conversations are intended to assess your independent thinking and technical depth. If we determine that AI tools were used without disclosure or approval during an interview, it may result in disqualification for the role and removal from the interview process.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations. This policy does not apply to approved accessibility or disability accommodations. If you require assistive technology or other support, please let the recruiting team know.

The compensation range for this role is $110,000-$165,000 USD. 

At Paperless Post, compensation is based on a number of factors, including geographic location, job-related skills, years of experience, and internal team banding. All full-time offer packages come with a base salary, equity component, and options for fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits. The range posted here is based on the NYC market and may vary based on candidate location.

While this position is remote-friendly, we can only employ in the following locations: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, California, Colorado, Ohio, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Washington, Maine.

We are seeking a Senior or Staff level Infrastructure Engineer (6-13+ years of experience) to join our Infrastructure team and contribute to the technical foundation of Paperless Post. In this role, you’ll build tools to manage infrastructure and solve operational problems. You modularize, reuse, and version control your infrastructure as code. You know when to use the latest technologies and when to automate, but still value uptime, performance, and stability. You follow best practices but iterate over your projects quickly and smartly.

We want to continue building on our Kubernetes-based platform by extending its capabilities to support more modern architectures and workflows, all in service of providing the best experience possible for our customers.

What you’ll do here

• Build and work with Kubernetes clusters - and all the related tooling!
• Create and maintain internal tools and services, with developers as end users
• Build infrastructure as code - we are big fans of Terraform and use it extensively
• Troubleshoot production and systems issues across the breadth of our tech stack
• Architect and build major components of our platform; projects such as, re-imagining our logging pipeline, building out smart auto-scaling capabilities for our apps to utilize, etc
• Maintain a variety of existing systems across our AWS infrastructure
• Contribute your expertise in collaborating with developers to drive important workflow improvements for our org
• Become our team’s subject matter expert within the various domains that your projects touch
• Participate in on-call rotation and have a strong desire to make on-call better for everyone

What you should bring to the table

• Willingness to learn and explore a wide variety of systems - members of our team must frequently dive into unfamiliar codebases and work with them
• Proven ability to architect a solution to a problem based on a minimal set of constraints and organizational needs, and drive it through implementation and release
• Ability to execute effectively as the primary individual contributor on a project
• Collaboration skills - we pair with other Infra team members or developers from outside the team if the project calls for it
• Experience orchestrating infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or other similar tooling
• Experience with a modern container-based cloud application environment(Kubernetes, Lambda, etc)
• Understanding that applications are not "production-ready” unless they're instrumented and monitored

Preferred skills

• AWS experience, especially around IAM and EC2 (among many other systems!)
• Postgres/RDS specific database administration knowledge
• Strong system fundamentals - Linux/sysadmin chops, networking knowledge, etc
• Experience with modern observability best practices
• You use AI tooling (Claude Code, OpenCode, etc) to modernize and adapt your workflow to the changing infrastructure engineering landscape

Some of the tech we use:

• Our apps run on Kubernetes
• We are primarily on AWS, though we do use a small assortment of other providers
• Our primary datastores are PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB
• We utilize OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, and more systems to aid in system observability
• Our CI/CD pipelines are primarily driven by CircleCI and ArgoCD

AI Usage Note

At Paperless Post, we value Being Resourceful, Progress Over Perfection, and being a Positive Force. Embracing thoughtful AI use is one way we put those values into practice. In our day-to-day work, we encourage teams to thoughtfully use AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot to move faster and think more creatively.

During interviews, our recruiting team may use AI-powered note-taking tools so we can stay focused on the conversation.

However, our interviews are designed to understand each candidate’s individual skills, problem-solving approach, and reasoning in real time. For that reason, unless explicitly requested and/or approved by the recruiting team, AI tools (including but not limited to generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.) may not be used during any interview sessions, including but not limited to:

-Recruiting phone interviews

-Technical screens 

-Live coding challenges

-System design interviews

-Take-home assignments

These conversations are intended to assess your independent thinking and technical depth. If we determine that AI tools were used without disclosure or approval during an interview, it may result in disqualification for the role and removal from the interview process.

Company-wide, we enjoy an amazing ecosystem of an even gender split and a balance of engineers and designers. Because Paperless Post isn't supported by ad revenue, we can focus our efforts on creating and improving on the ideal version of our platform, product, content, and partnerships for our users. 

We are proud that Paperless Post has helped over 220 million people globally connect in the real world since our inception. Paperless Post exists to help all people celebrate all the moments that matter to them. We believe that having a team reflective of the diverse world around us empowers us to create a product that serves everyone. Women, people of color, trans/genderqueer individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply.

The compensation range for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer I - II (L4- L5) role is $156,885 - 200,000.

The compensation range for the Staff Infrastructure Engineer (L6) role is $200,000- $220,000 USD.

 At Paperless Post, compensation is based on a number of factors, including geographic location, job-related skills, years of experience, and internal team banding. All full-time offer packages come with a base salary, equity component, and options for fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits. The range posted here is based on the NYC market and may vary based on candidate location.

Paperless Post is seeking an experienced (7-17 years of experience) backend or full-stack software engineer to help build and evolve the collection of services that power our best-in-class discovery and events management platform which powers experiences for a complex network of over 220 million hosts and receivers. As a key member of our team, you’ll help craft new core services and iterate on existing ones. You’ll work on all parts of the development cycle and in many different areas of code as part of a deeply collaborative team with a robust development process. 

Beyond technical expertise, we are looking for someone who demonstrates strong leadership behaviors, shows initiative, is accountable for quality and delivery, models our values through their actions, and contributes to a positive, collaborative engineering culture.

A little bit about us

The PP Engineering team, a highly collaborative group of developers and technologists, is charged with building and refining a consumer-facing product that millions of people interact with each month. The team you’ll be joining focuses on the highest priority projects across our product domains and is made up of engineers, product managers, QA, and product designers.  We prioritize creativity and continuing education, and our ongoing commitment to quality code shows in our pragmatic but brave approach to technology.

You will:

• Design and develop maintainable, reliable, and scalable enterprise-level, services-based software.
• Drive architectural decisions, service design standards, and long-term technical strategies appropriate for your level.
• Define design patterns that ensure performance, scalability, operability, and maintainability and hold feature teams accountable to their correct use.
• Investigate and implement scalable and sound service-oriented architectures that enable cross-functional teams to build, release, experiment iteratively, and detect and resolve production issues quickly.
• Make sound judgment calls that balance iteration speed, technical debt, and long-term architectural integrity, knowing when to optimize for right now and when to design for the future.
• Deploy regular code releases to production and test environments in Agile release cycles.

You have:

• A strong sense of ownership and accountability, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and follow through on commitments.
• A proactive and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying risks early and proposing practical solutions.
• Empathy for previous contributors and a collaborative mindset that supports clear communication and constructive feedback.
• Deep experience with scalable systems including web infrastructure, distributed systems, performance analysis, or large-scale data processing.
• Strong critical thinking skills and the ability to articulate sound technical decisions.
• Solid understanding of frameworks, design patterns, and AWS.
• Knowledge of developing RESTful APIs and maintaining SLAs.
• Proficiency in at least one statically typed language such as Golang, C or Java with Golang preferred.
• If full-stack, experience with Typescript, React, Next.js, and GraphQL within a modern frontend architecture.
• Experience building and deploying services in a distributed environment and understanding service-to-service communication models.
• Ability to mentor engineers and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Company-wide, we enjoy an amazing ecosystem of an even gender split and a balance of engineers and designers. Because Paperless Post isn't supported by ad revenue, we can focus our efforts on creating and improving on the ideal version of our platform, product, content, and partnerships for our users. 

We are proud that Paperless Post has helped over 220 million people globally connect in the real world since our inception. Paperless Post exists to help all people celebrate all the moments that matter to them. We believe that having a team reflective of the diverse world around us empowers us to create a product that serves everyone. Women, people of color, trans/genderqueer individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply.

AI Usage Note

At Paperless Post, we value Being Resourceful, Progress Over Perfection, and being a Positive Force. Embracing thoughtful AI use is one way we put those values into practice. In our day-to-day work, we encourage teams to thoughtfully use AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot to move faster and think more creatively.

During interviews, our recruiting team may use AI-powered note-taking tools so we can stay focused on the conversation.

However, our interviews are designed to understand each candidate’s individual skills, problem-solving approach, and reasoning in real time. For that reason, unless explicitly requested and/or approved by the recruiting team, AI tools (including but not limited to generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.) may not be used during any interview sessions, including but not limited to:

-Recruiting phone interviews

-Technical screens 

-Live coding challenges

-System design interviews

-Take-home assignments

These conversations are intended to assess your independent thinking and technical depth. If we determine that AI tools were used without disclosure or approval during an interview, it may result in disqualification for the role and removal from the interview process.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations. This policy does not apply to approved accessibility or disability accommodations. If you require assistive technology or other support, please let the recruiting team know.

The compensation range for the Senior Software Engineer role is $165,000 - 185,000 USD.

The compensation range for the Staff Software Engineer role is $200,000 - 235,000 USD.

At Paperless Post, compensation is based on a number of factors, including geographic location, job-related skills, years of experience, and internal team banding. All full-time offer packages come with a base salary, equity component, and options for fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits. The range posted here is based on the NYC market and may vary based on candidate location.

While this position is remote-friendly, we can only employ in the following locations: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, California, Colorado, Ohio, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Washington, Maine.