--- title: "Senior Backend Engineer, Agents" company: "Scribe" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/scribe" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/scribe-senior-backend-engineer-agents-d4e72a08-0f6e-4240-b68b-5e10d081f39a" apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scribe/a9442a77-3c5d-4ba2-aca4-c78a63ee4f2b" workplace: remote location: "Remote " employment_type: full-time seniority: senior role: software-engineering region: other skills: ["aws", "django", "postgres", "python", "redis", "terraform"] salary: "$145,000–$230,000 per year" date_posted: 2026-09-04T15:19:48.035Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-04T18:44:19.580Z --- # Senior Backend Engineer, Agents **Scribe** · Remote Salary: $145,000–$230,000 per year Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scribe/a9442a77-3c5d-4ba2-aca4-c78a63ee4f2b ## 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 Senior Backend Engineer to join our** Agents Engineering Team**, which powers some of the most essential experiences at Scribe: document viewing and editing, embedding and exporting content, and supporting key integrations. Millions of users rely on these workflows every day. In this role, you’ll take ownership of impactful projects — from evolving critical document features to building new greenfield systems — and collaborate across the stack to deliver high-quality product experiences. As a backend engineer, you’ll bring depth to our systems, influence technical discussions, and help raise the bar for engineering excellence within the team. ##### 🛠️ 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 across critical user workflows - Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver intuitive and reliable experiences at scale - Contribute to technical discussions within the team, balancing short-term delivery with longer-term architectural evolution - Uphold strong engineering practices through thoughtful code reviews, solid test coverage, and attention to observability and performance ##### 🔍 What We're Looking For - You have 5+ 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 - You’re a strong advocate for automated testing - You’ve seen and can implement engineering best practices - 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!) ##### 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 stipend *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. 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). --- Source: Scribe's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/scribe-senior-backend-engineer-agents-d4e72a08-0f6e-4240-b68b-5e10d081f39a