Staff Backend Engineer, Payments

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 communities and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live experiences, 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:

• $8 billion+ in revenue generated since Patreon's inception

• 60 million+ free new memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and

• 10 million+ fans paying each month for exclusive access to creators' work and community.

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 Staff Backend Engineer to join our Payments team to support our mission.

This role is based in San Francisco and open to those who are able to be in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model.  

About the Team 

Payments is at the core of Patreon as a business, directly responsible for getting our creators paid billions of dollars a year. Our work enables creators to seamlessly grow and monetize their global audience over a multitude of channels. The team's work covers interesting product and technical challenges with both breadth and depth.

About the Role

• 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.

• Drive technical design of components that are scalable, well tested and are easy to maintain 

• Advocate for best patterns and practices in the areas of system design, performance, observability and testing.

• 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

About You

• 8+ years of experience in software development

• Strong experience with Python or a similar language and SQL

• Solid communication skills with cross-functional team members and mentoring junior engineers

• A track record of building systems with attention to detail, high reliability, and high throughput

• Experience building products in the payments domain is a plus, but not a strict requirement for this role

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.

About Patreon

Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts:

• Put Creators First | They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win. 

• Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.

• Make it Happen | We don’t quit. We learn and deliver. 

• Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.

We hire talented and passionate people from different backgrounds because workplace diversity and inclusion is critical to our ability to serve creators worldwide. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t match with every bullet point outlined above, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. If you’re a creator at heart, are energized by our mission, and share our company values, we’d love to hear from you.

Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accomodations@patreon.

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.

Patreon operates under a hybrid work model, where employees based in office locations are expected to come into the office two 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 outside of our office hubs are not expected to meet the same requirements.

At Patreon, we believe in fair and transparent pay. In compliance with New York and California pay transparency laws, we are sharing the expected salary range for this role.

The posted salary range is dependent on the location and the level. This range may encompass multiple levels within the role’s job family. The final offer will be based on candidate’s experience, skills, competencies, and geographic location, aligning with the appropriate job level within Patreon’s leveling framework. For remote employees located outside CA and NY, salary may vary based on location and local market conditions.

Patreon reserves the right to modify or update compensation and benefits at any time.