Sr Backend Software Engineer, Recording

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>TL;DR – Why This Role Matters</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.<br></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">📌 <strong>About the Role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As a <strong>Sr. Software Engineer, Backend</strong> 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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a high-impact opportunity to help define how Scribe scales backend infrastructure for the next stage of growth.<br></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">🌎 <strong>Location</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">While we’re a globally distributed team, this role requires you to live permanently in a U.S. time zone.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br>🧩 <strong>What Makes You a Great Fit</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You bring 8+ years of experience building backend applications with Python, Typescript, or Go.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’re confident working with message queues, background jobs, and task orchestration tools such as Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’ve built large-scale data ingestion and processing systems and understand the challenges that come with scale, reliability, and performance.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You know how to optimize endpoint performance, improve database query efficiency, and troubleshoot bottlenecks in critical systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You enjoy building pragmatic, high-quality application code and care about maintainability as much as velocity.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You thrive in fast-moving environments and bring a strong sense of ownership to your work.<br></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Bonus points if:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have experience with Django.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’ve worked at a startup or other fast-paced, high-growth environment.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you’re reading this thinking “that’s me!”, we want to meet you!<br></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">👋 <strong>About Us</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to document and scale how work gets done. Our Workflow AI platform automatically captures and optimizes workflows so teams work smarter, faster, and more consistently.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re growing fast — since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown to over 5 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 uplevel how people do work.<br></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">🛠️ <strong>How We Work</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are builders aspiring to master our crafts. We care deeply about our teammates and want to win, together. We fully embrace the following values:</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Accelerate impact</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Raise the bar</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Make our users heroes</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Clear is kind</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Rapid learning machine</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">One team one dream<br></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">💰 <strong>Compensation</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">🎁 <strong>Full-Time US Employee Benefits Include</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Applies to full-time, U.S.-based roles only. Delete if international role.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Incredible teammates</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ownership mindset (equity for all employees)</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Health, dental, and vision insurance</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Flexible paid time off and company holidays</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">401(k) retirement plan</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Paid parental leave</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Home office stipend</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p>

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