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Software Engineer, Backend

Patreon· Engineering
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Hybrid (New York)$189k - $255.5kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Backend-focused software engineering role building services, APIs, and data pipelines to support creator insights and analytics at Patreon.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that serve creator insights at scale.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines, jobs, and models that feed insights features, in partnership with Data Engineering.
  • Improve data quality, monitoring, and performance so creators can trust what they see.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to turn ambiguous questions into well-scoped solutions.
  • Drive technical design, write well-tested and maintainable code, and mentor teammates.]
  • location_note_source_text":"This role is based in New York or San Francisco and open to those who are able to be in-office 3 days per week on a hybrid work model."

Qualifications

  • 3+ years or 5+ years of experience in backend software development, building production services and APIs.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or a similar language, with good engineering practices (testing, CI/CD, monitoring).
  • Strong SQL skills and experience designing and optimizing relational data models (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL).
  • Hands-on experience with data-intensive work, such as batch or streaming pipelines, scheduled jobs, event logging, or serving analytical data (e.g. Airflow, Spark, Kafka / Kinesis, dbt, a data lake or warehouse).
  • Care about data accuracy and reliability, including idempotency, backfills, and handling late or duplicate data.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable partnering with product, design, and data teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentPythonSQL / relational databasesData pipelines / orchestrationData quality & reliabilityCollaboration & communicationEducation

Benefits

  • 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.
  • [US] 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 sick leave, and pension with an employer contribution.
  • [Portugal] Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, vacation leave, company holidays and recharge days, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave and sick leave, and pension with an employer contribution.
  • [UK] Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, vacation leave, company holidays and recharge days, patronage, parental leave and sick leave, and pension with an employer contribution.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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