Senior Backend Engineer — Core Product (Python/Django)

Cantos Ventures; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off and companyhols

401(k)

Paid parental leave

Daily catered lunch (SF office)

Commuter benefits

Home office stipend

Job summary

Scribe is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Core Product Engineering team in San Francisco. You will own backend features across the Django monolith, improve performance, and collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver reliable experiences at scale.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years building backend apps, strong Python expertise, and a passion for testing, observability, and engineering best practices in a fast-growing startup environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building backend applications at high scale and availability.
• Extensive experience with Python.
• Ability to optimize endpoint performance and database queries.
• Strong advocate for automated testing.
• Experience implementing engineering best practices.
• You’re user-centric, empathetic, and passionate about your work.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship backend features in our Django monolith across core document workflows and greenfield projects.
• Improve performance and reliability by optimizing database queries, endpoints, and caching layers.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver scalable experiences.
• Contribute to technical discussions, balancing short-term delivery with architectural evolution.
• Uphold strong engineering practices through code reviews, tests, and observability.

Skills

Backend experience

Python

Database optimization

Automated testing

Engineering best practices

User-centric mindset

Tools

Django

PostgreSQL

Redis

Celery

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Scribe is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Core Product Engineering team in San Francisco. You will own backend features across the Django monolith, improve performance, and collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver reliable experiences at scale.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years building backend apps, strong Python expertise, and a passion for testing, observability, and engineering best practices in a fast-growing startup environment.