Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Scribd

Scribd Core

$124-226k

+ Equity. Salary dependent on location. In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $157,500 CAD to $201,000 CAD

React

Python

GraphQL

Node.js

Next.js

Ruby on Rails

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

E-book and audiobook subscription service

Be an early applicant

E-book and audiobook subscription service

201-500 employees

B2CLearningEntertainmentSocial

Be an early applicant

$124-226k

+ Equity. Salary dependent on location. In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $157,500 CAD to $201,000 CAD

React

Python

GraphQL

Node.js

Next.js

Ruby on Rails

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

201-500 employees

B2CLearningEntertainmentSocial

Company mission

To revolutionize the way the world reads and learns.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

6+ years of full-stack development experience. Our frontend monolith is built with Ruby-on-Rails and React, we will be migrating pieces of it to Next.JS in the latter half of this year. You’ve built and shipped production systems across the stack using React and Next.js or Ruby on Rails
Familiarity with maintaining services in a cloud environment. We own the document search service, among others on Core Scribd. We’re looking for you to be familiar with monitoring/maintaining service health, and responding to incidents
Understanding of performance, accessibility, and SEO. You’re passionate about building fast, inclusive, and discoverable experiences
Collaborative mindset. You thrive in cross-functional environments and enjoy working closely with Design, Product, AI/ML, and Infrastructure to deliver high-quality, user-centered features
Commitment to code quality and maintainability. You take pride in writing clean, well-documented, and extensible code, setting a high bar for engineering quality across the organization

Desirable

In addition to the above, we occasionally work with Node and Go services

What the job involves

Shape the core experience for 10M+ daily readers. Join the team behind Scribd’s primary reading experience and directly impact how millions of users explore and learn from our 300,000+ document corpus
Experiment at the intersection of product and AI. Partner closely with Product, Design, and AI/ML teams to rapidly prototype and launch experiments that elevate engagement and comprehension on the document reading page
Build new creative experiences from 0→1. Help develop innovative tools that empower users to synthesize research and produce study guides, presentations, and documents — all enhanced by generative AI
Improve SEO and AEO. Work with our SEO PM to improve search and answer engine traffic to the Core Scribd pages
Modernize our tech stack for the future. Lead efforts to decompose our Ruby-on-Rails monolith into a modern, modular Microfrontend architecture powered by Next.js and a distributed backend
Help migrate frontend surfaces from a Ruby-on-Rails monolith to a microfrontend
Collaborate with our Data/ML and Content Pipeline teams to build new features and make improvements to our document ingestion infrastructure
Create new GraphQL APIs
Build new services in Node, Python, Go
Collaborate with Design and PM
Contribute to a shared design system
Make contributions to improving our frontend infrastructure

Our take

The world's biggest site for social reading and publishing, Scribd's website has over 250 million unique visitors each month and a vast content library, consisting of over 200 million audiobooks, magazines, ebooks and newspapers as well as media created by the Scribd community.

While Scribd is the largest social reading site, it is not alone in offering this kind of media. It competes against some major players, the largest of which are Amazon's Kindle and Audible offerings, but also includes the likes of BookMate and the non-profit Internet Archive. Where it stands aside is in its feature-rich reader and the sheer diversity of its library, which, thanks to partnerships with several major publishers, features numerous popular titles as well as a range of independent creators.

Further differentiating it from competitors, the company taken a firm stand on social issues, in particular the recent wave of book bannings taking place across the United States. By making the banned titles freely available it hopes to do its part in preserving literary freedom. With this tendency showing no signs of slowing down, Scribd's intervention in this area could prove to be important.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

0% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3)

Trustpilot (1.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Nov 2019

$58m

LATE VC

Jan 2015

$22m

LATE VC

Total funding: $105.9m

Company benefits

Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
12 weeks paid parental leave
Short-term/long-term disability plans
401k/RSP matching
Tuition Reimbursement
Learning & Development programs
Quarterly stipend for Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort
Mental Health support & resources
Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family
Referral Bonuses
Book Benefit
Sabbaticals
Company wide events
Team engagement budgets
Vacation & Personal Days
Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
Flexible Sick Time
Volunteer Day
Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Tony Grimminck

(CEO)

Joined the company in 2019 as CFO, becoming CEO in 2023. Previously co-founded International Connector, has served as Board Member and Advisor at various companies, and was CFO at Oto Analytics.

Share this job

View 8 more jobs at Scribd