Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Scribe, a fast-growing company using cutting-edge technology, as a Backend Developer. You will design and build large-scale data ingestion and processing systems alongside custom AI models. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience writing backend applications using Typescript, Python, or Go, and strong experience with message queues and task systems. You will create cutting-edge services, write and scale application code, optimize endpoint performance, and deploy and manage distributed systems. Scribe offers competitive salaries, comprehensive healthcare benefits, equity, flexible PTO, 401k, parental leave, and more.

Requirements

• You have 8+ years writing backend apps with Typescript, Python, or Go
• You have strong experience with message queues and task systems using Celery Tasks & Schedules (or similar: AWS SQS, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, etc.)
• You’ve built large-scale data ingestion systems
• You’ve built and deployed micro-services
• You can write Python
• You know how to optimize endpoint performance and DB queries

Responsibilities

• Create cutting edge services for data ingestion and AI inference with our in-house models
• Write and scale application code
• Optimize business-critical endpoint performance
• Deploy, manage and scale distributed systems with background jobs and queueing

Preferred Qualifications

• You have Django experience
• Startup experience (not required, but we build and move fast!)

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Exciting and motivating equity
• Flexible PTO
• 401k
• Parental Leave
• Commuter Benefits (SF office employees)
• WFH Stipend