Senior Backend Engineer (Python) - Content Understanding (Quebec)

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build event‑driven, distributed, and scalable systems in Python that support content enrichment and metadata extraction across our brands.

Role Overview

Design, implement, and scale backend services that integrate machine learning and LLM‑based components to extract, enrich, and process large‑scale document and media datasets. Lead the design of resilient, high‑performance pipelines on AWS and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver robust systems at global scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the organization, driving secure coding best practices.
• Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of event‑driven, distributed systems for metadata extraction and enrichment.
• Partner with Data Science, Infrastructure, ML Engineering, and Product teams to architect and deliver robust, high‑throughput content processi...