Fullstack Software Engineer, Scribd
Growth Platform
$103-184k
Canada Salary Range: $132,000-$165,000. Plus equity
E-book and audiobook subscription service
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E-book and audiobook subscription service
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$103-184k
Canada Salary Range: $132,000-$165,000. Plus equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize the way the world reads and learns.
Role
Who you are
- A passionate engineer who takes pride in writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code
- Someone who thrives in both backend system design and frontend feature development
- A strong communicator and collaborator who enjoys working with marketers, data scientists, product managers, and engineers across the Growth Pillar to develop high-leverage, self-service tools and data activation workflows
- An engineer who stays current with industry trends and technologies
- A pragmatic problem-solver who balances technical rigor with business needs
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like React
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and its ecosystem
- Understanding of database systems (SQL and NoSQL) and architectural tradeoffs
- Experience designing and consuming APIs (REST, GraphQL a plus)
- Understanding of experimentation, A/B testing, personalization systems, and the MarTech landscape
- Communicates clearly and frequently with cross-functional partners, influencing through technical depth and collaborative decision-making
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Desirable
- Experience with instrumenting and working on data integration projects, such as event tracking, data pipelines, or syncing user data between internal systems and third-party platforms
- Have worked in a Growth Engineering or Growth Platform team at a product-led company
- Experience with backend technologies like Redis, Kafka, MySQL, and Terraform
- Knowledge of GraphQL and Next.js
- Familiarity with migrating monolithic architectures to microservices/frontends
What the job involves
- We are seeking a determined Fullstack Software Engineer to join our Growth Platform team
- In this role, you will design, build, and scale the shared systems that power Growth at Scribd, from self-service tooling and experimentation infrastructure to the data integrations behind our lifecycle marketing
- You will partner closely with marketers, data analysts, lifecycle teams, and the other Growth engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions that enhance cross-channel marketing effectiveness, attribution accuracy, and customer engagement
- You’ll participate in technical design, code reviews, and best practice implementation while identifying opportunities to improve systems and processes
- Building intuitive, performant self-service tools that let marketers and other teams move without engineering help
- Building and maintaining integrations that share customer and event data with third-party platforms, including our lifecycle marketing tools
- Ensuring scalability, testability, and maintainability throughout the development process
- Collaborating across teams to drive impactful projects forward
- Staying proactive by proposing innovative solutions to technical challenges
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
0% employee growth in 12 months
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.
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