Senior Frontend Engineer, Community

Patreon is the best place for creators to build memberships by providing exclusive access to their work and a deeper connection with their communities. We’re building a content and community platform where creators can engage directly with their fans and monetize their creativity, while maintaining full ownership over the work they make and the communities they create.

We’re leaders in the membership space with 250,000+ active creators and over $3.5 billion paid directly to creators on our platform. Our team is building tools to optimize the creator-to-fan relationship, including native video, enhanced podcasting features, improved creation tools, and new community experiences. We’re continuing to invest heavily in building the most talented team in the Creator Economy and are looking for a Frontend Engineer for our Community team to support our mission.

About the Role

Community is a brand new team funded particularly to accelerate Patreon’s vision to be THE best home (“community”) for creators and their fans to come together. This product team will design, test, and launch multiple 0->1 features to enrich creator-to-patron and patron-to-patron interactions on Patreon.

• Serve as the primary frontend expert for the team: build, drive, and own the success for new community features on Patreon.com
• Improve the reliability, performance, and stability of the frontend codebase
• Interact with real creators to prototype ideas and gather feedback
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to build delightful and well-crafted product experiences

About You

• Strong software development fundamentals
• Experience with Typescript/Javascript, React, and Node.js
• (Ability to operate full-stack and execute on both backend business logic AND frontend UI/UX is welcome)
• Autonomously breaks down large objectives into smaller tasks and executes
• Strong communication skills
• Passion for helping creators and their fans build deeper connections with one another
• A degree in an engineering field or 2+ years of professional experience, that includes working on frontend in a production environment

About Patreon

Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts:

• Put Creators First | They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win.
• Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.
• Make it Happen | We don’t quit. We learn and deliver. 
• Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.

Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, unlimited paid time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.