Software Engineer, Backend

The role

You will build and own services, APIs, and data flows behind creator insights. You will design data models, build and maintain pipelines, and ensure data is correct, fast, and reliable.

What you will do

• 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.
• Improve data quality, monitoring, and performance.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers.
• Drive technical design, write well-tested and maintainable code, and mentor teammates.

Required 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
• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience with data quality, lineage, or observability tooling.
• Experience building customer-facing analytics, reporting, or insights features.
• Familiarity with metric design and data modeling for analytics and experimentation.
• Familiarity with Elastic Search or OLAP

Benefits

• Salary
• Equity plans
• Healthcare
• Flexible time off
• Company holidays and recharge days
• Commuter benefits
• Lifestyle stipends
• Learning and development stipends
• Patronage
• Parental leave
• 401k plan with matching

About the company

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. The company aims to fund the creative class.