Staff Backend Engineer

The role

You will lead development of new features in a Django monolith and improve performance and scalability. You will partner with product and design to deliver editing and rendering experiences and make architectural decisions.

What you will do

• Lead development of new features in our Django monolith
• Improve performance and scalability by optimizing database queries, endpoints, and caching layers
• 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
• Raise the bar on engineering excellence through code reviews, mentorship, and strong practices in testing, observability, and performance

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building backend applications at high scale and availability
• Deep, extensive experience with Python
• Know how to optimize endpoint performance and database queries
• Advocate strongly for automated testing
• Implemented engineering best practices

Nice to have

• Experience with Django
• startup experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including two $0/month medical plan options
• Equity
• 401(k) Plan through Vestwell
• $500/year Flex Benefit for home office equipment, productivity tools, learning & development or fitness/wellness
• $100/month Commuter Benefits for SF based employees
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Free Talkspace membership
• One Medical access (location-dependent)
• Kindbody discounts for family planning

Before you apply

• Send a POST to https://apply.scribe.com with full_name, email, github_url, and resume_url in the json body

About the company

Scribe is a Specialized Intelligence platform that automatically captures how work happens. Based in San Francisco, it is a LinkedIn Top Startup valued at over $1B.