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Staff Backend Engineer, Core Product

Scribe · San Francisco · Remote

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About Scribe

Automatically capture, improve, and scale how work gets done. Give your teams and AI agents the context to do their best work. Trusted by 94% of the Fortune 500. Backed by Redpoint and Amplify.

About the role

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Core Product Engineering team , which owns the most essential experiences at Scribe: viewing and editing documents, managing pages, embeds, exports, and key integrations. You'll shape the systems behind how millions of users create, share, and consume documentation, contributing to system design, elevating engineering culture, and mentoring engineers across the team.

What they're looking for

  • You've built backend applications at high scale and availability for 8+ years
  • You have deep, extensive experience with Python
  • You know how to optimize endpoint performance and database queries
  • You advocate strongly for automated testing
  • You've implemented engineering best practices, not just read about them
More about this role

Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to own their specialized intelligence: the unique way their teams work, decide, and get things done. Our Specialized Intelligence platform automatically captures how work happens and turns it into a living asset that helps people and AI agents do their best work.

We're growing fast, since our founding in 2019, we've grown to 7 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we've been named a LinkedIn Top Startup, are valued at over $1 billion, and are backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to transform how people do work.

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Core Product Engineering team , which owns the most essential experiences at Scribe: viewing and editing documents, managing pages, embeds, exports, and key integrations. You'll shape the systems behind how millions of users create, share, and consume documentation, contributing to system design, elevating engineering culture, and mentoring engineers across the team.

Lead development of new features in our Django monolith, focused on core document viewing, editing,...

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