Frontend Engineer, Patreon
Insights
$178-240k
+ Equity plans
2 days a week in office
Funding platform for creatives
Job no longer available
Funding platform for creatives
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$178-240k
+ Equity plans
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Patreon's mission is to power creators to do what they love, and get paid by the people who love what they do.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in software development
- Excited to craft delightful user experiences and reusable components using Next,js and React, grounded in JavaScript and TypeScript best practices
- Good knowledge and understanding of modern web technologies (we use Flask, Node.js, gRPC, HTTP)
- Able to interact with and extend REST APIs
- Experienced with build tools like Webpack, Babel, and CircleCI
- Preference for practicality over dogmatism
- Penchant for solving complex requirements with elegant and simple solutions
What the job involves
- We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator products with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to support our mission
- The Insights team helps creators understand how their business is performing and to take action to maximize their success. We’re working on a multi-year roadmap to grow our creator analytics tooling from basic to best in class
- Build products that maximize the reach and ROI of Patreon creators
- Engineer tools with high craft that maximize simplicity and power
- Synthesize feedback from user research, interviews, market insights and trends to build components that solve our users’ most immediate problems
- Employ an iterative approach to development with a focus on shipping evolutionary releases that culminate in revolutionary products
- Work hand in hand with cross-functional partners to refine and deliver new features
- Contribute to company-wide efforts to refine our front-end tech stack
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Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Commuter stipend
- Training budget
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Stock options
- 401k
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Our take
Creatives face two major struggles in the online space: getting eyes (or ears) on their work, and getting paid for it. Patreon was founded to solve both problems with a platform that would provide a space for creators to host and promote their work, and offer supporters a way to show their support through a regular paid subscription.
Patreon has been a leader in the content subscription space since its founding, but recently has come under pressure from newer rivals such as Substack and Ko-fi. It has maintained its position by shifting its focus from being primarily a marketplace for supporters to find creatives that interest them to being a toolbox for content creators to promote their work. While the site's creatives value this approach it remains to be seen whether Patreon will be able to return to the growth it was enjoying in previous years.
Despite the inroads made by competitors and a troubling global economic outlook making finances tougher for content creators and their supporters, Patreon is still a leader in its space, with over its over 250,000 active creators having made $3.5 billion through the platform. It is going through a period of downsizing to focus on its core business, and is continuing to hire talent to improve its product and expand its marketing efforts.
Steph
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