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Staff Backend Engineer – Payments & Billing

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United States; Canada; Mexico , San Francisco ▼

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Salary:

137500.00 - 260500.00 USD / Year
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Job Description:

The Payments & Billing team at Scribd powers our subscription revenue engine by delivering the systems that manage billing lifecycles, global payment processing, and financial reliability across Scribd, Everand, Slideshare, and Fable. Our focus areas include payment processing at scale, invoicing, reconciliation, fraud prevention, compliance, and support for international currencies and payment methods. We partner closely with Product, Finance, Risk, and Platform Engineering to ensure that millions of readers worldwide can reliably access our services every day.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence while driving scalable, resilient, and observable financial systems that enable teams to move fast, simplify complexity, and deliver revenue with confidence
  • Modernize legacy systems and eliminate technical debt to improve velocity and scalability
  • Partner with Product, Finance, Risk, Platform, and Analytics to deliver secure, reliable financial flows, leveraging data, metrics, and telemetry to uncover trends, resolve anomalies, and guide the team with clarity and foresight
  • Mentor engineers, shape cross-team technical strategy, and tackle some of the hardest scaling and security challenges in the company

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in building and scaling distributed systems for financial or mission-critical workloads
  • Strong foundation in data modeling, transactional consistency, and high-throughput architectures, with hands-on SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and familiarity with NoSQL and caching
  • Skilled in observability and reliability practices: defining SLOs, implementing metrics/alerts, debugging distributed systems, and leading incident response
  • Strong coding ability in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Java, Go, or Python, with a focus on clean, maintainable, and secure code
  • Proven track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or modernization efforts
  • Communicates clearly and collaborates across product, finance, risk, and platform teams, influencing both technical and business decisions
  • Contributes to cross-team initiatives (mentoring, architecture review groups, knowledge sharing) that shape Scribd’s engineering culture

Nice to have:

  • Strong coding ability in Ruby
  • Deep experience designing and operating payment or billing systems
  • Integrated with major payment service providers (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, PayPal) and managed multi-currency or local payment methods
  • Knowledge of compliance and security standards (PCI DSS, encryption, tokenization)
  • Understand fraud prevention strategies (chargebacks, retries, card fingerprinting, abuse detection)
  • Led large-scale migrations between payment providers or billing systems with minimal customer impact
What we offer:
  • Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave
  • Short-term/long-term disability plans
  • 401k/RSP matching
  • Onboarding stipend for home office peripherals + accessories
  • Learning & Development allowance
  • Learning & Development programs
  • Quarterly stipend for Wellness, WiFi, etc.
  • Mental Health support & resources
  • Free subscription to the Scribd Inc. suite of products
  • Referral Bonuses
  • Book Benefit
  • Sabbaticals
  • Company-wide events
  • Team engagement budgets
  • Vacation & Personal Days
  • Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
  • Flexible Sick Time
  • Volunteer Day
  • Company-wide Employee Resource Groups and programs that foster an inclusive and diverse workplace
  • Access to AI Tools: We provide free access to best-in-class AI tools, empowering you to boost productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate bold innovation

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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