Senior Software Engineer, Fraud
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Description

Do you believe that creators should have theability to get paid for the value they give to theirfans?

We do, which is why we're building Patreon, a platform that powers membership services for creators with established followings. Patreon strives to provide creators with insight, education, and tools that make it possible to retain creative control while running their creative business, so creators can focus on creating and energizing their fan bases.

We have paid over $350 million directly to creators on our platform, and our user base has doubled in the last year alone.

Fraud, scams, account takeovers - these are some of the most stressful experiences a Creator or Patron can face. At Patreon, we believe we can improve on the financial industry's status quo for managing risk, and find better ways to help and protect our Creators and Patrons. In order to support this level of growth, Patreon is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Fraud.

What you will do:

* Lead and contribute to the development and design of our Fraud and Risk platform, and tools working with and mentoring other team members.
* Develop systems to gather signals from payment and identity data providers, to distinguish fraudulent activity from legitimate.
* Manage scale & reliability. Maintaining Patreon Fraud Platform at scale requires constant investment in security, reliability and monitoring tools.
* Use machine learning (ML) techniques to analyze user behavior of bad actors
* Work with a supportive team to get things done with the right mix of quality and agility.
* Advocate for optimized practices across the engineering organization.
* Collaborate with people from all walks of life, motivated by passion for our shared mission.
* Build a product that helps creators focus on their work while making a living through our platform.
* Work with Python 3.6, Flask, MySQL, AWS, Redis, and Kafka, introducing other technologies when it makes sense.

Skills and experience you possess:

* You have experience working in systems handling high volume financial transactions
* You have experience in fraud-detection and prevention systems
* You have experience shipping quality code, releasing early, and iterating rapidly.
* You have experience in working with data-driven applications at scale
* You have opinions on what makes effective programming and testing practices.
* You are smart about scheduling and planning.
* You know how to write clear code.
* You prefer practicality over dogmatism.

Projects you may work on:

* Design, build and deploy scalable stream and graph processing systems to power model training and real-time automated decision making.
* Expanding our fraud and risk service, which processes thousands of transactions per minute, ensuring our creators and patron are safe and secure.
* Building tools to help creators manage their businesses, gain insights from their data, and get closer to their biggest fans.
* Leveling up our public API to support extensive 3rd-party integrations via a secure and elegantly simple developer experience.
* Contribute at a global scale.

Who you'll work with:

At Patreon, you'll join a world-class, highly-empathetic team of people who proudly work on fulfilling our mission of funding the creative class. Our culture of creator-first, thoughtful teammates keeps work creative, stretching, and rewarding.

Patreon aspires to be among the tech industry's most inclusive work environments. Not only is it the right thing to do, but pursuing diversity of perspectives helps us build for our diverse community of creators and patrons. To learn how we're working towards this, please click here.

We work hard to maintain a bottom-up decision-making culture. We empower our employees by providing a clear vision and tools to fulfill on it. We believe that hiring smart, thoughtful, people and giving them strong ownership of their work leads to the best results. We encourage you to learn more about how we think about culture at Patreon, to make sure we're the right place for you.