# Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Fable Core at Scribd

- Company: Scribd
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator, CRV and Redpoint.
- Company website: http://scribd.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-04-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ScribdInc/450391bf-4fb2-4fae-9acd-96851c7e82e3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scribd-staff-software-engineer-backend-fable-core/

## About the role

Fable Core is the backend, infrastructure, and platform team behind Fable – a social reading product now part of Scribd, Inc. Fable is a leading platform for everything related to books and reading: find your next book, join a book club, build a reading habit. We care deeply about building a great experience for our growing community of 1M+ monthly active users. The Fable app has often been featured in the App Store, both as App Of The Day and the Essential Book Apps list.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of backend experience, including meaningful time in Python/Django and at least one other stack (Go, Node, Java/Kotlin, or similar)
- Experience operating production systems on a major cloud – OLTP databases at scale, container orchestration, queueing, and CI/CD
- A track record of owning incidents end-to-end, including the follow-through
- The ability to write a Technical Design Document (TDD) that a staff peer trusts and a product lead can understand, and to turn ambiguous product intent into concrete backend design
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills – you hold your own with senior PM, design, and ML partners, and you care more about the system landing than about being right
- A pragmatic default paired with a strong systems instinct – you look for root causes, not symptoms

Tags: Engineering