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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. Were growing fast since our founding in 2019, weve grown to over 4 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we've raised $55M in funding from top-tier investors and are honored to have been named as a Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startup and LinkedIn Top Startup. Join us in our mission to uplevel how people do work.
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. Were growing fast since our founding in 2019, weve grown to over 4 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we've raised $55M in funding from top-tier investors and are honored to have been named as a Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startup and LinkedIn Top Startup. 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 embrace the following values:
- Accelerate impact
- Raise the bar
- Make our users heroes
- Clear is kind
- Rapid learning machine
- One team one dream
Were looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our growing team as a Staff Engineer on the Documents 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, youll contribute to the design of our systems, help define and elevate our engineering culture, and mentor other engineers on the team.
You can expect to
- 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
- Youre a strong advocate for automated testing
- Youve seen and can implement engineering best practices
- Youre 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)
- Some of the nicest and smartest teammates youll ever work with
- Competitive salaries
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Exciting and motivating equity
- Flexible PTO
- 401k
- Parental Leave
- Commuter Benefits (SF office employees)
- WFH Stipend
$205-$235k base + equity
We consider several factors when determining compensation, including location, experience, and other job-related factors.
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 and Affirmative Action Employer.
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