Staff Backend Engineer, Patreon
Payments
$221-299k
+ Equity plan
2+ days a week in office
Funding platform for creatives
Job no longer available
Funding platform for creatives
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$221-299k
+ Equity plan
2+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Patreon's mission is to power creators to do what they love, and get paid by the people who love what they do.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in backend software development
- Excited to maintain high standard of quality and craft with an eye for user experience and engineering detail
- A track record of building systems with attention to detail, high reliability, and high throughput
- Experience designing, building, deploying, monitoring and maintaining code in a service-oriented architecture
- Proactive in communicating with your peers and cross-functional partners
- Experience building products in the payments domain is a plus, but not a strict requirement for this role
What the job involves
- You'll help scale and expand capabilities of Patreon's payment platform that helps creators get paid effectively and on time, every time
- Lead and contribute to the development and design of the Payments platform and tools to support the payment processing at Patreon
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to improve our automated testing and reliability of our payments platform
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build new functionality, while maintaining a delightful user experience, motivated by passion for our shared mission
- Work with a supportive team to get things done with the right mix of quality and agility
- Work with Java, Python, Flask, Spring Boot, MySQL, and AWS, introducing other technologies when it makes sense
- Build a strong product-minded, engineering culture by mentoring and guiding engineers inside and outside the team
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Creatives face two major struggles in the online space: getting eyes (or ears) on their work, and getting paid for it. Patreon was founded to solve both problems with a platform that would provide a space for creators to host and promote their work, and offer supporters a way to show their support through a regular paid subscription.
Patreon has been a leader in the content subscription space since its founding, but recently has come under pressure from newer rivals such as Substack and Ko-fi. It has maintained its position by shifting its focus from being primarily a marketplace for supporters to find creatives that interest them to being a toolbox for content creators to promote their work. While the site's creatives value this approach it remains to be seen whether Patreon will be able to return to the growth it was enjoying in previous years.
Despite the inroads made by competitors and a troubling global economic outlook making finances tougher for content creators and their supporters, Patreon is still a leader in its space, with over its over 250,000 active creators having made $3.5 billion through the platform. It is going through a period of downsizing to focus on its core business, and is continuing to hire talent to improve its product and expand its marketing efforts.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
49% female employees
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Commuter stipend
- Training budget
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Stock options
- 401k
Company values
- Build with care
- Think big, but start small
- Guide & empower
- Respect the value of creators’ work
- Honor the relationship between creators and patrons
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Jack Conte
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(CTO)Worked in analytics and engineering roles at Yahoo, Ning and Loopt. Previously founded mobile advertising company AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.
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