Senior Backend Engineer, Notifications

6 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Full Stack Development • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Patreon seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to lead & build user-facing features for a delightful notification experience. 5+ years of Python/similar language, React/Next.js, Typescript/Javascript, SQL, Machine Learning experience required.
Must have:
  • Python experience
  • React/Next.js
  • Typescript/Javascript
  • SQL experience
Good to have:
  • Machine Learning
  • Full Stack
  • System Design
  • Observability
Perks:
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Equity Plans

Job Details

Patreon is the best place for creators to fire up their fandoms, share exclusive work, and turn their passions into lasting creative businesses. Over 250,000 podcasters, writers, musicians, artists, and other creative people use Patreon to reach their biggest fans directly and earn an income for the value they provide. Creators can offer paid memberships that unlock access to exclusive work and community, or sell individual digital items from their own Patreon shops. 

Ultimately, our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we’re leaders in that space, having sent over $3.5 billion to creators since our founding. We’re continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator tools with the best team in the creator economy, and are looking for a Backend Software Engineer 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 2 days per week on a hybrid work model.

About the Role

  • Lead and contribute to the design and development of user-facing features that power a delightful notification experience for creators and fans across various channels such as email, push, in-product.

  • Build and maintain APIs that support critical and low latency backend applications used by web and mobile applications.

  • Comfortable working as a full stack engineer in React, next.js and python environments.

  • Collaborate with Machine Learning engineers in building value models to optimize notifications.

  • Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to improve our automated testing and reliability of our notifications platform.

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

  • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, designers, and other engineers to deliver high quality features.

About You:

  • 5+ years of experience in software development

  • Strong experience with Python or a similar language

  • Experience with React, next.js, Typescript or Javascript

  • Experience with SQL.

  • Understanding of Machine Learning systems.

  • Solid communication skills with cross-functional team members

  • Eager to take on new challenges and expand skill set

  • Build a strong product-minded engineering culture by mentoring and guiding engineers

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.

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

Compensation Range: $192K - $288K

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