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# Backend Engineer, Data Ingestion

- **Company:** The Smart
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Code Coverage, Code Review, Databases, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), Data Ingestion, Large Language Models, Backend, Hubspot
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/68373441-2edf-4d7b-924d-e9d17a7b7ba6

## About the Role

* 2+ years building experience building backend applications
 * Product-minded. You care about the user problem as much as the code
 * Comfortable with unclear problems and fast change
 * Strong Python or Go experience, or experience in another backend language and willingness to work across Python and Go
 * Familiar with queues, object storage, and relational or time-series databases
 * Has debugged a production problem from metrics and logs
 * User-centric, empathetic, and passionate about your work
 * Nice to have: AI/LLM product experience, startup experience

## Description

As a Backend Engineer on Data Ingestion, you'll work on the systems that bring captured activity into Scribe: receiving, batching, storing and handing it on to the AI pipeline, at the scale of hundreds of thousands of users and growing. The work is backend and infrastructure: throughput, reliability and cost.

What you'll do

 * Build projects from design to launch, on established products and new ones.
 * Collaborate with PMs, designers and other engineers to execute the build and how.
 * Contribute to technical discussions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architecture.
 * Uphold strong engineering practices: code review, test coverage and observability.
 * Build and operate high-throughput backend services and the queues and storage behind them.
 * Improve the performance and reliability of services, database queries, endpoints and caching across critical workflows.
 * Take part in the on-call rotation for the systems you build, * Hard, open problems. Nobody hands you a finished spec. You'll decide what to build with your PM and designer, then own how it performs.
 * The reach of a unicorn, the headcount of a startup. We went from $1M to $100M ARR in under four years, with fewer than 200 people. That means more pie than people: scope grows with your impact. Customers like T-Mobile, LinkedIn, HubSpot, New York Life and Northern Trust run on Scribe, so what you own reaches some of the biggest names in business.
 * Smart is the floor. Kind is the bar. Low ego, high standards. We compete as a collective and love to see each other win, and One Team, One Dream is one of the most shouted-out values in #values.

Compensation & Location

Hybrid, based in San Francisco. We work from the office 3 days per week, with Mondays and Wednesdays being anchor days.

All full-time employees receive equity in Scribe. Final offers depend on experience and scope.