18 days ago
Base Salary
$167k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of scalable backend payments and billing systems.
- Own billing lifecycles, global payment processing, invoicing, reconciliation, fraud prevention, and financial reliability.
- Integrate with Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, PayPal, and international payment methods and currencies.
- Ensure PCI DSS compliance, tokenization, encryption, secure data handling, and human review of AI-assisted changes.
- Lead the use of AI agents for design, implementation, testing, debugging, operations, alert triage, incident investigation, and anomaly detection.
- Define guardrails for AI-assisted work involving PCI-scoped systems and sensitive data.
- Modernize legacy systems, eliminate technical debt, and lead migrations and refactoring efforts.
- Mentor engineers, shape cross-team technical strategy, and improve architecture, review, testing, and verification practices.
- Partner with Product, Finance, Risk, Platform, and Analytics teams using metrics and telemetry to resolve anomalies and guide decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems for financial or mission-critical workloads.
- Strong data modeling, transactional consistency, and high-throughput architecture experience with hands-on SQL, including MySQL or PostgreSQL, plus familiarity with NoSQL and caching.
- Experience with observability and reliability practices, including SLOs, metrics, alerts, distributed-systems debugging, and incident response.
- Strong coding ability in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby, Java, Go, or Python; Ruby is preferred.
- Production experience using agentic engineering tools and workflows, with the judgment to validate AI-generated code and protect sensitive data.
- A proven record of technical leadership, architectural direction, mentoring, large-scale migrations, or modernization.
- Experience establishing engineering patterns, tooling, or review practices adopted by others.
- Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration with product, finance, risk, and platform teams.
- Preferred experience includes payment or billing systems, major payment providers, multi-currency processing, PCI DSS, fraud prevention, payment-system migrations, MCP integrations, AI-assisted on-call workflows, human-in-the-loop code review, and AI-specific security risks.
Benefits
- Flexible Scribd Flex work model with occasional in-person attendance required and location eligibility limited to specified US, Canadian, and Mexico City metro areas.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, plus mental health support and disability coverage.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals.
- Paid parental leave and family support benefits.
- Retirement matching, employee equity, wellness and home office stipends, and learning and development programs.
- Complimentary access to Scribd, Inc. products and enterprise access to leading AI tools.
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