Software Engineer

Supporting Cast seeks a passionate, creative developer with PHP and agentic engineering experience to expand onSupporting Cast’s podcast subscription platform. As a key member of our team, you'll be helping independent creators, podcast publishers, and media companies improve their financial sustainability and better satisfy their fans. You'll be joining a small development team and will be in a position to influence our tech stack and our evolving product. Working here provides the dynamic excitement of a startup, and the stability and competitive compensation of an established employer.

We will consider candidates from anywhere in the United States, provided you can largely work East Coast hours—the role is fully remote.

About the Position

Opportunities:

• Learn a lot about the podcast industry and the rapidly growing paid subscription market
• Scale an application as we onboard clients with tens of thousands of members and evaluate new technologies
• Develop and maintain user- and administrator-facing features in our existing stack
• Help us leverage A.I. tools to accelerate new feature development and improve code quality and security
• Build and maintain implementations for other websites, including embeds and third-party integrations

Our Current Tech Stack:

• App: PHP/Laravel, Nginx, Varnish, Redis, PostgreSQL, Docker, React
• Dev ops: AWS, Fastly CDN
• Key business vendors and partners: Stripe, Spotify, Wordpress
• Key software vendors: Google Cloud Computing, AWS (SES/SNS/SMS), Anthropic
• Repo: GitHub
• Project management: Agile-oriented. Notion, Google Docs, Slack.

• 1–3 years of professional experience with PHP and a PHP framework such as Laravel
• 1–2 years of experience with LLM-based A.I.
• Familiarity with programming fundamentals and industry best practices; a CS degree is a plus but not required
• Willingness to adapt and learn on the job