Senior Backend Engineer
PatreonAbout The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Patreon, you will lead the development of key products that enhance the experience of Patreon creators. You will work with a team of engineers to break down and solve complex problems, exemplify and drive adoption of best practices in the areas of system design, performance, and testing. Collaborating cross-functionally and across teams, you will build products that holistically meet user needs and partner to build and adapt engineering systems and solutions that will accelerate the team’s engineering velocity.
You will also mentor and guide more junior engineers towards success, ensuring a high standard of quality and craft with an eye for product excellence and engineering detail. Your role will involve solving complex requirements with elegant and simple solutions, and you will be enthusiastic about building for creators.
About You
You bring 5+ years of experience in backend software development with in-depth knowledge of Python, Go, PHP, Java, or a similar general purpose language. You possess a strong understanding of web servers, API design frameworks, and data modeling. Your skills in performance profiling and best-practices for database query optimization are top-notch.
Excellent communication skills are essential for driving requirements gathering, decision-making, and knowledge sharing. You hold a high standard of quality and craft, which is crucial in building systems with attention to detail, high reliability, and high throughput.
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 across the organization. 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.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
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