Staff Backend Engineer – Payments & Billing at Scribd

Scribd offers Scribd Flex, allowing employees in partnership with their manager to choose a daily work-style that suits their needs, balancing individual flexibility and community connections. Occasional in-person attendance is required for all employees to build collaboration, culture, and connection, regardless of location.

Scribd hires for GRIT, which stands for setting and achieving Goals, achieving Results within job responsibilities, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and positively influencing the broader Team through collaboration and attitude. It represents the intersection of passion and perseverance towards long-term goals.

You will lead the technical architecture and implementation of payments and billing systems, design and operate backend services for subscription payments at global scale, own billing lifecycle, global payments, invoicing, reconciliation, and financial reliability, and ensure compliance and security.

The team powers Scribd's subscription revenue engine by managing billing lifecycles, global payment processing, and financial reliability across products like Scribd, Everand, Slideshare, and Fable, with focus on payment processing at scale, invoicing, reconciliation, fraud prevention, compliance, and international support.

Strong candidates demonstrate GRIT by setting and achieving goals, delivering results, contributing innovative ideas, and positively influencing the team, along with experience leading backend architecture for payments systems, integrating with providers like Stripe and Adyen, and ensuring financial compliance and security.