Sr Backend Software Engineer, Recording

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DR – Why This Role Matters

Scribe is building the infrastructure that powers how modern teams capture, process, and scale knowledge. As a Sr. Software Engineer, Backend, you will play a critical role in shaping the systems behind our data ingestion, workflow processing, and AI inference capabilities. Your work will directly influence the reliability, performance, and scalability of the platform as we continue to grow quickly and serve millions of users around the world.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, Backend at Scribe, you will design and build the backend systems that power core product experiences and next‑generation AI capabilities. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working close to application code while also thinking deeply about distributed systems, scalability, and performance.

You will help architect and evolve large‑scale data ingestion and processing pipelines, build services that support AI inference with our in‑house models, and improve the performance of business‑critical systems across the platform. You’ll work across Python, Typescript, and Go, and partner closely with teammates to deploy and operate reliable systems in AWS.

This is a high‑impact opportunity to help define how Scribe scales backend infrastructure for the next stage of growth.

While we’re a globally distributed team, this role requires you to live permanently in a U.S. time zone.

• You bring 8+ years of experience building backend applications with Python, Typescript, or Go.
• You have deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments.
• You’re confident working with message queues, background jobs, and task orchestration tools such as Celery, SQS, Rabbit
  
  MQ, or Kafka.
• You’ve built large‑scale data ingestion and processing systems and understand the challenges that come with scale, reliability, and performance.
• You have experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices.
• You know how to optimize endpoint performance, improve database query efficiency, and troubleshoot bottlenecks in critical systems.
• You enjoy building pragmatic, high‑quality application code and care about maintainability as much as velocity.
• You thrive in fast‑moving environments and bring a strong sense of ownership to your work.

• You have experience with Django.
• You’ve worked at a startup or other fast‑paced, high‑growth environment.

We use trusted market data and a tiered location system to ensure competitive, equitable pay. The range below reflects this; your specific offer will depend on experience, pay parity, and location.

• Incredible teammates
• Ownership mindset (equity for all employees)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid parental leave
• Home office stipend

Scribe is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.