# Staff Backend Engineer (Payments and Billing) at Scribd

- Company: Scribd
- What the company does: Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting. Backed by Y Combinator, CRV and Redpoint.
- Company website: http://scribd.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-21
- Apply by: 2026-12-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ScribdInc/469270ab-5517-400a-884d-afc85a3821b3?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scribd-staff-backend-engineer-payments-and-billing/

## About the role

Lead the technical architecture and implementation of Scribd's payments and billing systems, the backbone of our subscription business. Design, build, and operate backend services that power subscription payments at global scale. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Has 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in building and scaling distributed systems for financial or mission-critical workloads
- Brings a strong foundation in data modeling, transactional consistency, and high-throughput architectures, with hands-on SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and familiarity with NoSQL and caching
- Is skilled in observability and reliability practices: defining SLOs, implementing metrics/alerts, debugging distributed systems, and leading incident response
- Has strong coding ability in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Java, Go, or Python, with a focus on clean, maintainable, and secure code
- Has hands-on experience with agentic engineering tools and workflows in a real production setting. You use AI agents daily, can explain how you choose a tool or approach for a task, and know where these tools break down
- Has the judgment to rigorously validate AI-generated code, protect sensitive data, and recognize when a change needs deeper investigation or shouldn't be delegated to an agent at all. You can explain and own every line you ship, whoever or whatever wrote it

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scribd-staff-backend-engineer-payments-and-billing/