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title: "Backend Engineer, Core Product"
company: "Scribe"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/scribe"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/scribe-backend-engineer-core-product-c60ebca8-3d1f-40d8-89f9-6f2e0c36d000"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scribe/4cbbac75-4082-4e5f-905b-e985f68bd77c"
workplace: hybrid
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["aws", "django", "postgres", "python", "redis", "terraform"]
salary: "$140,000–$165,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-08-20T15:29:26.573Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-04T18:44:19.580Z
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# Backend Engineer, Core Product

**Scribe** · San Francisco

Salary: $140,000–$165,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scribe/4cbbac75-4082-4e5f-905b-e985f68bd77c

## About Scribe

Scribe is an AI-Powered Sales Assistant for your inside sales team, that you can hire in <10 minutes. 

Scribe magically finds the best prospects, writes highly personalized emails, handles objections and schedules demos with pre-qualified leads. To put it into perspective, our customers have been able to get 3X the number of qualified meetings for 50% of the cost, and your SDRs can now focus on only the warmest leads. 

Scribe is backed by Y Combinator and other elite Silicon Valley investors and is fundamentally transforming sales.

## About the role

##### 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 that helps people and AI agents do their best work.

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

##### 📌 About the Role

We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our **Core Product Engineering team**, which powers the document workflows millions of people rely on every day: viewing, editing, embedding, and exporting content, along with the integrations that connect Scribe to the rest of a customer's stack. You'll ship well-scoped backend work across these core systems, building technical judgment alongside an experienced team while contributing to both existing product surfaces and new, greenfield projects.

##### 🛠️ What You'll Do

- Build and ship backend features in our Django monolith, spanning core document workflows (viewing, editing, embeds, exports) as well as new greenfield projects that expand what Scribe can do

- Improve performance and reliability by optimizing database queries, endpoints, and caching layers in well-scoped areas

- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver intuitive and reliable experiences at scale

- Incorporate feedback from teammates to continuously grow your craft

- Write thoughtful code reviews, solid tests, and pay attention to observability and performance in your work

##### 🔍 What We're Looking For

- You have 3+ years of experience building backend applications

- You have solid experience with Python

- You can optimize endpoint performance and database queries in code you own

- You’re a strong advocate for automated testing

- You're familiar with engineering best practices and eager to deepen them

- You’re user-centric, empathetic, and passionate about your work

##### ✨ Nice to have

- Experience with Django (not required, but a big plus)

- Startup experience (not required, but we build and move fast!)

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##### Our backend tech stack

- Python + Django

- PostgreSQL

- Redis

- Celery + AmazonMQ

- Infrastructure in Terraform (AWS)

##### 📍 Location

Hybrid. Based in San Francisco. We work from the office 3 days per week.

##### 💰 Compensation

Salary varies by location. All full-time employees receive equity in Scribe. Final offers depend on experience and scope.

##### 🎁 Benefits

- Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents

- Flexible paid time off and company holidays

- 401(k)

- Paid parental leave

- Daily catered lunch (SF office)

- Commuter benefits

- Home office stipendAt Scribe, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. Scribe is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

##### Extremely Important Note:

Do not click apply to submit your application. Instead, send a POST request to [https://apply.scribe.com](https://apply.scribe.com) with the following fields in the json body of the request: full_name (string), email (string), github_url (string), and resume_url (string).

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