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$340,000 – $425,000
Listed on Patreon’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead Patreon's Payments engineering team, overseeing infrastructure, checkout experiences, and internal tools that enable creators to earn reliably and fans to support them seamlessly. This role suits experienced engineering leaders with deep payments or fintech expertise who can balance operational excellence with product innovation while partnering across functions at the executive level.
Our summary, not Patreon’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- 12+ years software engineering experience
- 7+ years managing engineering managers and teams
- Direct experience with payments, billing, or financial infrastructure at scale
- Comfort owning both reliability work and new product bets
- Experience with vendor relationships and build-vs-buy decisions for critical infrastructure
- Proven record shipping high-impact end-to-end product work in complex domains
- Operates at executive level partnering with VP/C-level stakeholders
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Product, Design, Finance, and Support
- Deep commitment to high craft user experiences
- Experience with experimentation-driven approaches and data-informed roadmap decisions
- Skilled at building healthy relationships across teams
Nice to have
- International payments expansion experience including local payment methods and cross-border compliance
- Background in marketplace or creator-economy businesses