Senior Backend Engineer, Adopt
$150k - $200k USD
✨TL;DR - Why This Role Matters
We’re looking for an experienced back end engineer who thrives in a high autonomy, fast paced environment with a focus on impact to contribute to our mission to bring process knowledge to life—making it discoverable, actionable, and continuously useful.
At the team level you’ll work on a cross functional product team with a pm, designer and mix of frontend and backend engineers focused on delivering and growing a new ‘Adopt’ sku as well as core product work focused on helping users accomplish their goals within the tools they use.
Within the larger engineering org, you’ll have opportunities to contribute to setting process and standards in our backend engineering group as well as experimenting with ai tools and contributing toward our overall strategies and best practices in this rapidly evolving ai driven development world.
📌 About the Role
As a Sr Backend Engineer at Scribe, you will:
Build and ship backend features in our Django monolith, spanning across existing adoption and suggestion features as well as new greenfield projects that expand our Adopt team mission
Improve performance and reliability by optimizing database queries, endpoints, and caching layers across critical user workflows
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver intuitive and reliable experiences at scale
Contribute to technical discussions within the team, balancing short-term delivery with longer-term architectural evolution
Uphold strong engineering practices through thoughtful code reviews, solid test coverage, and attention to observability and performance
🌎 Location
While we’re a globally distributed team, this role requires you to live permanently in the US.
For candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area, this role is expected to follow our hybrid work model, with regular in-office collaboration 3 days per week.
🧩 What Makes You a Great Fit
You have 5+ years of experience building backend applications at high scale and availability
You have extensive experience with Python
You know how to optimize endpoint performance and database queries
You’re a strong advocate for automated testing
Comfortable working with a distributed team
Low ego, high curiosity
Generally proactive but especially when it comes to communication. This is a high urgency team and we need people who are determined to make rapid progress.
Comfortable owning ambiguous problems while bringing clarity for others working on them or invested in the outcome
Bonus
Experience with Django Rest framework
Experience with AI tools and prompt driven engineering practices
If you’re reading this thinking “that’s me!”, we want to meet you!
👋 About us
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.
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.
🛠️ How we work
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:
Accelerate impact
Raise the bar
Make our users heroes
Clear is kind
Rapid learning machine
One team one dream
💰 Compensation
We use trusted market data and a tiered location system to ensure competitive, equitable pay. The range below reflects this; your specific offer will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, location, and overall fit for the role.
$150,000 - $200,000 base + Equity + Benefits
🎁 Full-Time US Employee Benefits Include
Incredible teammates: Work alongside some of the nicest and smartest people you’ll ever meet.
Ownership mindset: We’re all owners here, literally. Employees receive equity in Scribe, sharing in the company’s long-term success.
Comprehensive coverage: We offer health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
Time to recharge: Flexible paid time off, plus company holidays to rest and reset.
Retirement planning: Employees can contribute to a 401(k) plan to help plan for their future.
Support for growing families. Paid parental leave to help you care for and bond with your growing family.
Lunch, on us: SF-based employees receive daily catered lunches at our office.
Easy commutes: Commuter benefits for our office-based team, make getting to and from HQ simpler.
Level up your home office: Remote? Hybrid? Wherever you work, we’ll support your setup with a home office stipend.
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. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. Scribe is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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