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Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable backend payments and billing systems.
- Design, build, and operate subscription payment services supporting global currencies and local payment methods.
- Own billing lifecycles, invoicing, reconciliation, financial reliability, and integrations with payment providers.
- Implement PCI DSS, tokenization, encryption, secure data handling, and human-review guardrails for AI-assisted changes.
- Lead agentic engineering workflows and build shared agent capabilities for alert triage, incident investigation, and anomaly detection.
- Modernize legacy systems, reduce technical debt, and improve migrations, refactoring, and test coverage.
- Define observability and reliability practices, including metrics, alerts, SLOs, debugging, and incident response.
- Mentor engineers, shape cross-team technical strategy, and collaborate with Product, Finance, Risk, Platform, and Analytics.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems for financial or mission-critical workloads.
- Strong knowledge of data modeling, transactional consistency, high-throughput architectures, SQL, NoSQL, and caching.
- Strong coding ability in Ruby, Java, Go, or Python; Ruby is preferred.
- Experience with observability, reliability practices, SLOs, metrics, alerting, distributed-system debugging, and incident response.
- Hands-on production experience with agentic engineering tools and workflows, including validating AI-generated code and protecting sensitive data.
- Proven technical leadership in architectural direction, mentoring, large-scale migrations, modernization, and team-wide engineering practices.
- Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration skills across technical and business teams.
- Preferred experience includes payment or billing systems, Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, PayPal, multi-currency payments, PCI DSS, encryption, tokenization, fraud prevention, payment-provider migrations, MCP integrations, AI-assisted on-call workflows, and AI-specific security risks.
Benefits
- Scribd Flex flexible work model with occasional in-person attendance required and primary residence near specified cities in the United States, Canada, or Mexico City.
- 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, family support benefits, retirement matching, and employee equity.
- Learning and development programs, professional growth opportunities, wellness and home office stipends.
- Complimentary access to Scribd, Inc. products and enterprise access to leading AI tools.
