Senior Backend Engineer, Payments & Billing

Job Description

Do you believe that creators should have the ability to get paid for the value they give to their fans?

We do, which is why we're building Patreon, a platform that powers membership services for creators with established followings. Patreon strives to provide creators with insight, education, and tools that make it possible to retain creative control while running their creative business, so creators can focus on creating and energizing their fanbases.
We have payed out over $500 million directly to creators on our platform this year alone, and our user base has doubled. In order to support this level of growth, we are looking for a Backend Engineer for our Payments & Billing team.

• You'll help scale and expand capabilities of Patreon's payment platform that helps creators get paid effectively and on time.
• Lead and contribute to the development and design of the Payments and Billing platform and tools to support the payment processing at Patreon.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to define and implement alternate payment methods that increase Patreon offering for creators to choose their method to payin and payout.
• Integrate with 3rd party systems and implement new solutions to streamline processes.
• Collaborate with product management, designers, and other engineers to build new product 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 Python, Flask, JAVA, Spring Boot, MySQL, AWS, Redis, Kafka and introducing other technologies when it makes sense.
• Build a strong product-minded, engineering culture by mentoring and guiding engineers
• Engineers joining now have tons of opportunities to take on responsibility and ownership and have a meaningful impact.

• 5+ years of experience in relevant software development
• Enforces a high standard of quality and craft with an eye for user experience and engineering detail
• Experience building systems for scale to handle high volume transactions
• Experience designing, building, deploying, monitoring and maintaining code in multi-service architecture.
• Experience working with microservices architecture and domain driven engineering design approach for developing new microservices.
• You have experience working with most AWS offered Saas and Paas services.
• You have the soft skills to come up with resolutions with the team regardless of different perspectives and timezones.
• You are smart about scheduling and planning.
• Experience building products in the payments domain will be big PLUS.

Who You'll Work With:

At Patreon, you'll join a high-performing and highly-empathetic team of people who proudly work on fulfilling our mission of funding the creative class. Our culture of creator-first, thoughtful teammates keeps work creative, stretching, and rewarding.

Our Core Values:

• Put Creators First. WHEN CREATORS WIN, WE WIN.
• Build with Craft. WE SIGN OUR NAME TO EVERY DELIVERABLE.
• Make it Happen. WE DON’T QUIT, WE LEARN AND DELIVER.
• Win Together. WE GROW AS INDIVIDUALS, WE WIN AS A TEAM.

Want to Learn More About Patreon?

• Check out TechCrunch’s article about our focus on membership.
• Listen to our CEO Jack and Co-Founder Sam chat with Guy Raz on NPR’s How I Built This .
• Check to see if you know a Patreon teammate on LinkedIn .