[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Scribe is building the infrastructure that powers how modern teams capture, process, and scale knowledge. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build the backend systems that support core product experiences and AI capabilities, focusing on large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines while ensuring system reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the backend systems that power core product experiences and next-generation AI capabilities
• Help architect and evolve large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines
• Build services that support AI inference with in-house models
• Improve the performance of business-critical systems across the platform
• Work across Python, Typescript, and Go, and partner closely with teammates to deploy and operate reliable systems in AWS

Skills

• You bring 8+ years of experience building backend applications with Python, Typescript, or Go
• You have deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments
• You're confident working with message queues, background jobs, and task orchestration tools such as Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka
• You've built large-scale data ingestion and processing systems and understand the challenges that come with scale, reliability, and performance
• You have experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices
• You know how to optimize endpoint performance, improve database query efficiency, and troubleshoot bottlenecks in critical systems
• You enjoy building pragmatic, high-quality application code and care about maintainability as much as velocity
• You thrive in fast-moving environments and bring a strong sense of ownership to your work
• You have experience with Django
• You've worked at a startup or other fast-paced, high-growth environment

Benefits

• Ownership mindset (equity for all employees)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid parental leave
• Home office stipend

Company Overview

Scribe offers a workflow AI platform helps organizations capture and optimize how work gets done. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://scribe.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Scribe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 2 in 2025, 2 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.