Senior Backend Engineer: Data Ingestion & AI Pipelines

Scribe; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

PTO

401(k)

Parental leave

Lunch program

Commuter benefits

Home office stipend

Job summary

Scribe is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to design and build the backend systems that power data ingestion, workflow processing, and AI inference. You will work close to application code while focusing on distributed systems, scalability, and performance.

You will collaborate across Python, TypeScript, and Go, deploy to AWS, and help shape reliable, maintainable services in a fast-growing startup that values ownership and speed.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development experience with Python, TypeScript, or Go.
• Strong background designing distributed systems in production.
• Experience with message queues and task orchestration (Celery, SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Built large-scale data ingestion and processing systems with scale and reliability.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining microservices.
• Optimizes API performance and database queries; troubleshoots bottlenecks.
• Demonstrates maintainable, pragmatic code with ownership and velocity.
• Thrives in fast-moving environments with a strong sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Build services that power AI inference with our in-house models.
• Improve the performance of business-critical systems across the platform.
• Design, deploy, and operate microservices in production.
• Work across Python, TypeScript, and Go to ship reliable, maintainable code.
• Partner with teammates to deploy and operate systems in AWS.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Distributed systems

Message queues

Celery

SQS

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Microservices

AWS

Django

Tools

Django

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

Scribe is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to design and build the backend systems that power data ingestion, workflow processing, and AI inference. You will work close to application code while focusing on distributed systems, scalability, and performance.

You will collaborate across Python, TypeScript, and Go, deploy to AWS, and help shape reliable, maintainable services in a fast-growing startup that values ownership and speed.