Software Engineer, Backend

Patreon is hiring a Software Engineer, Backend to build and own the services, APIs, and data flows behind creator insights. The role spans backend systems and data pipelines, with a focus on accurate, fast, and reliable analytics for creators.

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

Preferred

• 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
• Data Quality
• Data Lineage
• Data Observability
• Customer-Facing Analytics
• Analytics Reporting
• Insights Features
• Metric Design
• Data Modeling
• Elasticsearch
• OLAP

Benefits

• US employees: equity plans
• US employees: healthcare
• US employees: flexible time off
• US employees: company holidays and recharge days
• US employees: commuter benefits
• US employees: lifestyle stipends
• US employees: learning and development stipends
• US employees: patronage
• US employees: parental leave
• US employees: 401k plan with matching
• Hybrid work model: employees based in office locations are expected to come into the office three days per week.

Company

• Tech career marketplace connecting professionals with recruiters
• Centennial, Colorado, USA
• https://www.or-quest.nl/
• Founded in 1990
• 201-500 employees

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
• 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

Required skills

• Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Backend Software Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Data Modeling, Data Pipelines, Data Quality, Elasticsearch, Monitoring, MySQL, OLAP, PostgreSQL, Python, SQL, Testing

Preferred skills

• Familiarity with Elastic Search or OLAP

Experience

• 3+ years