Staff Backend Engineer

🏢 Scribe · 📍 San Francisco · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Scribe

Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to own their specialized intelligence: the unique way their teams work, decide, and get things done. Our Specialized Intelligence platform automatically captures how work happens and turns it into a living asset for people and AI agents.

We're growing fast. Since our founding in 2019, we've reached 7 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we're a LinkedIn Top Startup, valued at over $1B, and backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to transform how people work.

About the role

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Core Engineering team, which owns the most essential experiences at Scribe: viewing and editing documents, managing pages, embeds, exports, and key integrations. You'll shape the systems behind how millions of users create, share, and consume documentation, contributing to system design, elevating engineering culture, and mentoring engineers across the team.

What you'll do

Lead development of new features in our Django monolith, focused on core document viewing, editing, embeds, and exports
Improve performance and scalability by optimizing database queries, endpoints, and caching layers across critical workflows
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 for high-scale systems
Raise the bar on engineering excellence through code reviews, mentorship, and strong practices in testing, observability, and performance

What we're looking for

You've built backend applications at high sc

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Scribe evaluates your extreme focus on user friction reduction, product-led growth (PLG) loops, and creating frictionless visual documentation experiences.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Proposing bloated, enterprise-heavy sales motions for a product built on bottom-up viral adoption
2. Showing a lack of empathy for end-users who struggle with standard documentation workflows
3. Treating UI/UX polish as an afterthought rather than a core retention driver

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I build viral, product-led growth loops that turn complex user workflows into effortless, shareable documentation in seconds.

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