Staff Backend Engineer, Core

We are builders aspiring to master our crafts. We care deeply about our teammates and want to win, together. We embrace the following values:

Accelerate impact

Raise the bar

Make our users heroes

Clear is kind

Rapid learning machine

One team one dream

We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our growing team as a Staff Engineer on our Core Engineering team. ****This team owns the most essential user experiences in Scribe — including viewing and editing Scribes, managing Pages, Embeds, Exports, and supporting key Integrations. Your work will directly impact how users create, share, and consume documentation, helping them be more effective in their work.

You should be passionate about solving real user problems and approaching challenges with both pragmatism and elegance. This is an opportunity to collaborate closely with designers, user advocates, and engineers across the stack to shape the future of the Scribe product. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll contribute to the design of our systems, help define and elevate our engineering culture, and mentor other engineers on the team.

Lead development of new features in our Django monolith, focusing on the core experience of viewing and editing Scribes — including pages, embeds, exports, and related integrations

Optimize database queries, endpoints, and caching layers to improve performance and scalability across critical user workflows

Collaborate with product and design to deliver intuitive, reliable editing and rendering experiences at scale

Make architectural decisions about when to extend the monolith and when to invest in service extraction for high-scale systems

Set a high bar for engineering excellence through code reviews, mentorship, and best practices in testing, observability, and performance

You have 8+ 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

You’ve seen and can implement engineering best practices

You’re user-centric, empathetic, and passionate about your work

Experience with Django (not required, but a big plus)

Startup experience (not required, but we build and move fast!)

Python + Django

PostgreSQL

Redis

Celery + AmazonMQ

Infrastructure in Terraform (AWS)