Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Fable Core

About Scribd, Inc.

Work style

• Scribd Flex allows employees to choose a workstyle and location, while requiring occasional in-person attendance for all employees.
• Employees must reside in or near an eligible city in the United States, Canada, or Mexico; Miami is among the eligible U.S. locations.

About the role

What you'll do

• Set backend technical direction, write and socialize design documents, lead architecture reviews, and translate ambiguous product intent into backend designs.
• Own reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, costs, and observability.
• Lead incident response and postmortems, and ensure follow-up actions are delivered.
• Represent backend in cross-team planning and coordinate cross-functional execution.
• Mentor and support engineers through reviews and pairing; establish high standards for design, testing, and operations.
• Evolve the backend platform to improve safe and efficient delivery.
• Help the team adopt agentic engineering practices.

Experience and qualifications

• 10+ years of backend experience, including Python/Django and at least one additional stack such as Go, Node, Java/Kotlin, or similar.
• Experience operating production systems on a major cloud, including large-scale OLTP databases, container orchestration, queues, and CI/CD.
• Experience owning incidents end-to-end and following through on corrective actions.
• Ability to write clear technical design documents and turn ambiguous product needs into backend designs.
• Strong collaboration with senior product, design, and ML partners; pragmatic judgment and focus on root causes.
• Hands-on experience with agentic engineering tools and workflows in a production setting.

Nice to have

• Experience with subscription and entitlement systems such as Stripe, RevenueCat, or app-store and Play billing.
• Experience leading platform or infrastructure migrations, such as on-premises to cloud, AWS to GCP, or monolith to services.
• Experience working with ML teams on recommendation or feed systems.

Compensation

• U.S. salary range outside California is $141,000 to $254,000; California range is $171,000 to $267,000.
• Canada salary range is CAD $179,000 to CAD $228,500.
• Compensation varies by role level, location, experience, skills, and organizational needs; equity and benefits are also offered.

Benefits

• Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, mental health and disability support, paid time off, parental leave, retirement matching, equity, learning programs, wellness and home-office stipends, and product access.