Staff Backend Engineer — Fable Platform Lead

Scribd, Inc.; Austin (CO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage

Paid parental leave

Retirement matching and employee equity

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Fable Core team in Austin, Colorado. This role involves setting the technical direction and ensuring the reliability of the Fable backend platform. Candidates should have over 10 years of backend experience, particularly with Python/Django, and experience operating production systems in a cloud environment. Benefits include flexible work options, comprehensive health coverage, and generous paid time off.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend experience, particularly in Python/Django and one other stack.
• Experience operating production systems in a major cloud environment.
• Strong ability to turn ambiguous product intent into backend design.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for the Fable backend.
• Own backend reliability and platform health.
• Lead incident response and ensure action items ship.

Skills

Python/Django

Container orchestration

Cross-functional collaboration

Incident response

TDD (Test-Driven Development)

Tools

AWS

GCP

Datadog

Postgres

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Fable Core team in Austin, Colorado. This role involves setting the technical direction and ensuring the reliability of the Fable backend platform. Candidates should have over 10 years of backend experience, particularly with Python/Django, and experience operating production systems in a cloud environment. Benefits include flexible work options, comprehensive health coverage, and generous paid time off.