Staff Backend Engineer
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Remote) · Hybrid
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Listed
- 23 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Python
- Django
- database query optimization
- automated testing
Also useful
- caching layers
- observability
Stated benefits & perks
- Health
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k match
- Pto
About the role
We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Core 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 you'll do
- Lead development of new features in our Django monolith, focused on core document viewing, editing, embeds, and exports
- Improve performance and scalability by optimizing database queries, endpoints, and caching layers across critical workflows
- Partner with product and design to deliver intuitive, reliable editing and rendering experiences at scale
- Make architectural calls on when to extend the monolith versus invest in service extraction for high-scale systems
- Raise the bar on engineering excellence through code reviews, mentorship, and strong practices in testing, observability, and performance
What we'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
- Nice to have: Experience with Django, startup experience
Benefits
- Healthcare Coverage - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including two $0/month medical plan options for employees
- Equity - Ownership in what we're building
- 401(k) Plan - through Vestwell
- Flex Benefit - $500/year for home office equipment, productivity tools, learning & development or fitness/wellness
- Commuter Benefits - $100/month for SF based employees
- PTO - Flexible paid time off and company holidays
- Parental Leave - Paid leave to support growing families
- Wellness & Family Support - Free Talkspace membership, One Medical access (location-dependent), and Kindbody discounts for family planning
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About Scribe
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 for people and AI agents.
We're growing fast. Since our founding in 2019, we've reached 7 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we're a LinkedIn Top Startup, valued at over $1B, and backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to transform how people work.
Why you'll love working here
- Hard, open problems. Nobody hands you a finished spec. You'll decide what to build with your PM and designer, then own how it performs.
- The reach of a unicorn, the headcount of a startup. We went from $1M to $100M ARR in under four years, with fewer than 200 people. That means more pie than people: scope grows with your impact. Customers like T-Mobile, LinkedIn, HubSpot, New York Life and Northern Trust run on Scribe, so what you own reaches some of the biggest names in business.
- Smart is the floor. Kind is the bar. Low ego, high standards. We compete as a collective and love to see each other win, and One Team, One Dream is one of the most shouted-out values in #values.
Compensation & location
Hybrid, based in San Francisco. We work from the office 3 days per week, with Mondays and Wednesdays being anchor days.
All full-time employees receive equity in Scribe. Final offers depend on experience and scope.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
At Scribe, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. Scribe is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
From Scribe's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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