Staff Frontend Platform Engineer, Patreon
$221-299k
+ Equity
2 days a week in office
Funding platform for creatives
Open for applications
Funding platform for creatives
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$221-299k
+ Equity
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
- You are a self-starter who can take large, high-level problems and drive them to successful resolution
- You are a thought leader who has insights and strong opinions on frontend engineering
- You are passionate about building with craft
- You are allergic to inefficiency and friction that drains productivity for engineers
- You lead by example showing how to adhere to our company values and champion our engineering principles. You demonstrate effective execution and inspire others to do the same
What the job involves
- Build and maintain frontend infrastructure and tooling to empower product engineering at Patreon
- Design and implement frontend systems, libraries, and shared components that contribute to the success of frontend engineering
- Optimize loading and runtime performance of web pages and guide efforts for other teams to achieve highly performant results
- Plan for and lead large rollouts and migrations as we adopt new frontend technologies
- Mentor engineers and implement training to continuously level up our engineering organization
- Advocate for best practices, processes, and high craft solutions
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.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
49% female employees
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Commuter stipend
- Training budget
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Stock options
- 401k
Company values
- Build with care
- Think big, but start small
- Guide & empower
- Respect the value of creators’ work
- Honor the relationship between creators and patrons
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jack Conte
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(CTO)Worked in analytics and engineering roles at Yahoo, Ning and Loopt. Previously founded mobile advertising company AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.
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