Staff Software Engineer, Monetization

Scribe

Staff Software Engineer defining and owning technical strategies for Scribe's monetization platform. Shape billing systems for over 5 million users as part of a fast-growing SaaS company.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $245,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DjangoPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technical vision and long-term architecture of Scribe's monetization platform: billing, pricing infrastructure, entitlements, provisioning, packaging, and customer/org hierarchy
Set the technical standard for the billing engineering team define engineering norms, lead high-stakes design decisions, and raise the level of junior engineers through review and mentorship
Drive the design of systems that allow Scribe to launch new pricing models, tiers, and products without re-architecting from scratch
Own the entitlements and access control layer — the boundary between billing state and product access
Define and maintain the infrastructure Finance and Revenue Operations rely on: reconciliation pipelines, audit trails, reporting, and close processes
Partner with Growth leads to keep monetization and growth systems coherent as they scale
Collaborate with the Controller, Revenue Operations, Sales, and Product leadership to translate business requirements into durable system design
Identify and eliminate architectural gaps that create financial risk, operational complexity, or product constraints
Shape the technical direction for how self-serve subscriptions, enterprise invoicing, and sales-assisted purchasing coexist at scale
Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and engineering culture on the monetization team

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep time in monetization, billing, or revenue-critical systems
You have owned the technical strategy for a monetization platform not just executed on one someone else designed
You've worked on systems where "incorrect" has a dollar sign attached revenue pipelines, financial reporting, or billing infrastructure in production
You can reason across the full monetization stack: pricing models, subscription lifecycle, entitlements, provisioning, and financial reporting
You design for evolution pricing will change, products will expand, and your architecture can absorb that without a rewrite
You are as effective in a room with Finance and Revenue Operations as you are in a code review
You hold strong opinions on correctness, idempotency, and durability and have navigated real tradeoffs between those properties and latency or product flexibility under business pressure
You lead through taste and rigor, where engineers around you get better as a natural consequence of working with you
Strong backend engineering fundamentals, Python and Django experience is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Incredible teammates
Ownership mindset (equity for all employees)
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible paid time off and company holidays
401(k) retirement plan
Paid parental leave
Daily catered lunches (SF-based roles)
Commuter benefits
Home office stipend

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringmonetization platformbilling infrastructurefinancial reportingpricing modelssubscription lifecycleentitlementsprovisioningidempotencyPython

Soft Skills

leadershipmentorshipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingtechnical visiondesign decision-makingadaptabilityteam building