Software Engineer - Application Backend (remote)

Patreon • Remote (New York, New York, United States) • $0 / year • 4h ago

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their fans and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live video, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases.

Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a

Software Engineer, Backend

to support our mission. This role is based in

New York or San Francisco

and open to those who are able to be in-office 3 days per week on a hybrid work model. We partner closely with Data Engineering, Data Science, Product, and Design to turn creator and fan data into features creators use every day. As a Backend Engineer on the team, you will build and own the services, APIs, and data flows behind creator insights. You will bring a strong backend foundation and the curiosity to work in the data layer: designing data models, building and maintaining pipelines and jobs, and making sure the data creators see is correct, fast, and reliable. You will work across the stack from ingestion to the product surface, and take on work that today depends heavily on Data Engineering. Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that serve creator insights at scale. Build and maintain data pipelines, jobs, and models that feed insights features, in partnership with Data Engineering. Improve data quality, monitoring, and performance so creators can trust what they see. Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to turn ambiguous questions into well-scoped solutions. 3+ years or 5+ years of experience in backend software development, building production services and APIs. ~ Strong programming skills in Python or a similar language, with good engineering practices (testing, CI/CD, monitoring). ~ Strong SQL skills and experience designing and optimizing relational data models (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL). ~ Hands-on experience with data-intensive work, such as batch or streaming pipelines, scheduled jobs, event logging, or serving analytical data (e.g. Airflow, Spark, Kafka / Kinesis, dbt, a data lake or warehouse). ~ Care about data accuracy and reliability, including idempotency, backfills, and handling late or duplicate data. ~ comfortable partnering with product, design, and data teams. ~ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.

Bonus if you have: Experience with data quality, lineage, or observability tooling. Experience building customer-facing analytics, reporting, or insights features. Familiarity with metric design and data modeling for analytics and experimentation. We hire talented and passionate people from different backgrounds because workplace diversity and inclusion is critical to our ability to serve creators worldwide. Build with Craft |

We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. US]

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching. [Portugal]

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, vacation leave, company holidays and recharge days, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave and sick leave, and pension with an employer contribution. [UK]

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, vacation leave, company holidays and recharge days, patronage, parental leave and sick leave, and pension with an employer contribution. Patreon operates under a hybrid work model, where employees based in office locations are expected to come into the office three days per week, excluding sick time and paid leave. The goal of this policy is to be intentional about the in-person time we spend together to strengthen the feeling of community at Patreon. Candidates hired into remote-eligible roles are not expected to meet the same requirements. For remote employees located outside CA and NY, salary may vary based on location and local market conditions.