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Engineering Manager, Core Payments Experience

United States, San Francisco 246000.00 - 369000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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Patreon is looking for an Engineering Manager to support our mission of funding the creative class. You will be partnering with product, operations, design, and data to craft a vision and roadmap to deliver a high quality payments product for our creators and their fans. You will be overseeing a team of software engineers to realize that vision.

Job Responsibility

  • Set a high engineering bar and support a team of software engineers to achieve it
  • Partner with the Payments Platform team to ensure the right engineering foundations are set
  • Delegate or be hands on when necessary, ensuring key outcomes are achieved while bringing visibility to the team’s work
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leads to define Payments north stars, success metrics, and roadmap sequencing for H1/H2
  • Use research, product data, and support signals to inform priorities and iterate on designs
  • Ensure the core journeys your teams own feel clear, trustworthy, and modern across web and mobile
  • Collaborate with other teams so payments experiences feel cohesive across Insights, Creator Success, and other surfaces product areas
  • Help the broader company understand the “why” behind the Payments roadmap and the creator and fan problems we’re solving
  • Get out ahead of the near-term roadmap and discover future opportunities through product vision initiatives that you propose and manage

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience managing an engineering team
  • Proven track record shipping high‑impact, end‑to‑end product work in complex domains (ideally payments, fintech, or other mission‑critical systems)
  • Comfortable people managing but stepping in and identifying when more hands on effort is needed
  • Deep commitment to building high craft user experiences
  • Experience working with experimentation driven approaches to optimize product surfaces and use of data to inform roadmap decisions
  • Skilled at building healthy, trusting relationships across Product, Design, business partners, and other engineering teams

What we offer

  • Equity plans
  • Healthcare
  • Flexible time off
  • Company holidays and recharge days
  • Commuter benefits
  • Lifestyle stipends
  • Learning and development stipends
  • Patronage
  • Parental leave
  • 401k plan with matching

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