Staff Backend Engineer, Global Payments & Billing

Scribd, Inc.; Austin (CO); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking an innovative Payments & Billing Architect to lead the design and implementation of our global subscription payments and billing systems.

You will own the end-to-end lifecycle, ensuring reliability and security across multiple providers and currencies. You will design scalable backend services, integrate with Stripe, Adyen, and Braintree, and drive PCI DSS compliance, tokenization, encryption, and secure data handling.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing payments security measures (PCI DSS, tokenization, encryption).
• Experience leading payments and billing systems at scale.

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

Skills

Backend architecture

Security best practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Stripe

Adyen

Braintree

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking an innovative Payments & Billing Architect to lead the design and implementation of our global subscription payments and billing systems.

You will own the end-to-end lifecycle, ensuring reliability and security across multiple providers and currencies. You will design scalable backend services, integrate with Stripe, Adyen, and Braintree, and drive PCI DSS compliance, tokenization, encryption, and secure data handling.