Software Engineer, Backend

About the role

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. And we're leaders in that space, with:

- $10 billion+ generated by creators since Patreon's inception

- 100 million+ free memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and

- 25 million+ paid memberships on Patreon today.

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.

About the Team

Our team builds the insights and analytics experiences creators rely on to understand and grow their business on Patreon, along with the infrastructure that keeps those numbers accurate and trustworthy. We partner closely with Data Engineering, Data Science, Product, and Design to turn creator and fan data into features creators use every day.

About the Role

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.

In this role you will:

- 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.

- Drive technical design, write well-tested and maintainable code, and mentor teammates.

What you’ll need:

- 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).