Senior Engineering Manager, Core Backend at Patreon | Powderkeg

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.

Our user base has doubled in the last year alone, and we have paid over $3.5 billion directly to creators on our platform. In order to support this level of growth, Patreon is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Core Backend to join our San Francisco team.

What you will do:

  • Attract and retain a high-performing team with the highest tier of technical talent.
  • Collaborate with other engineering leaders, and cross functional peers such as product, design, finance, legal to craft a roadmap for your team.
  • Do effective prioritization between competing priorities, e.g., new systems, technical debt etc.
  • Coach and mentor engineers to grow their career.
  • Be an advocate and represent your team’s work in company-wide forums
  • Contribute to shaping overall engineering culture at the company
  • Participate in company-wide hiring activities such as recruiting, interviewing, and closing top candidates.

Skills and experience you possess:

  • Prior experience with managing a team with proven high quality of talent
  • Excellent communication and prioritization skills with the ability to lead through influence
  • Proven ability to work across different functions and being able to adjust communication according to the intended audience.
  • High EQ and personable approach to management with a focus on coaching and mentoring.
  • Deeply technical and possessing the ability to deep dive into technical issues and approach as needed.
  • Passionate about building a world class engineering culture and passionate about contributing to the larger team outside their own.

Projects you may work on:

  • Migrate to state-of-the-art technologies like GraphQL, Next.js, Typescript
  • Scale our infrastructure to our next phase of growth
  • Build your dream team of high-performing backend engineers
  • Establishing a multi-region disaster recovery plan so that we can withstand AWS region outages

What you will have the chance to learn:

  • Work with state-of-the-art technology and establish Patreon’s presence in the open-source community
  • Experience hypergrowth, both in the team and product, and learn how to navigate the scaling challenges that come with it

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.

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Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Senior Engineering Manager, Core Backend
  • Company
    Patreon
  • Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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