Lead Backend Engineer for Global Payments & Billing

Scribd, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a senior engineer to lead the Payments & Billing architecture for its subscription platforms.

You will design and operate backend services powering global payments, invoicing, and reconciliation, while ensuring PCI compliance and data security. You will collaborate with Product, Finance and Engineering to scale the billing lifecycle and integrate with providers like Stripe and Adyen.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical architecture and implementation of Scribd's payments and billing systems, the backbone of our subscription business.
• Design, build, and operate backend services that power subscription payments at global scale.
• Own billing lifecycle, global payments, invoicing, reconciliation, and financial reliability, integrating with multiple providers (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree) and supporting international currencies and local methods.
• Ensure compliance and security of financial systems through PCI DSS, tokenization, encryption, and secure data handling.
• Lead agentic engineering on the team: use AI agents across design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operations, and help the team adopt workflows that make us measurably faster without lowering the bar on correctness or security.
• Build shared AI leverage for payments, such as agent skills for alert triage, incident investigation, and anomaly detection, and runbooks, documentation, and context that agents can use reliably. Contribute these to Scribd's shared skills marketplace rather than building one‑off tools.
• Define guardrails for AI‑assisted changes in PCI scope: human review of every change, keeping cardholder and sensitive data out of prompts, logs, and unapproved tools, and clear testing and verification standards for AI‑generated code that touches money movement.
• Foster a culture of

Job description

Scribd, Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a senior engineer to lead the Payments & Billing architecture for its subscription platforms.

You will design and operate backend services powering global payments, invoicing, and reconciliation, while ensuring PCI compliance and data security. You will collaborate with Product, Finance and Engineering to scale the billing lifecycle and integrate with providers like Stripe and Adyen.