Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Scribd

• Strong ownership mindset, taking responsibility for frontend systems from design through long-term evolution
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to reason about frontend architecture at scale
• Pragmatic approach to modernization, balancing ideal solutions with incremental, low-risk progress
• Strong collaboration skills and comfort working closely with both product and platform teams
• Long-term perspective on maintainability, extensibility, and developer experience
• 6+ years of professional frontend software engineering experience
• Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React
• Hands-on experience with Next.js or similar modern web frameworks
• Familiarity with Microfrontend architectures, monorepos, or shared frontend platforms
• Strong understanding of web performance, bundling, and optimization techniques
• Experience collaborating with backend and platform teams to define clean integration patterns
• Comfort operating in environments with high traffic, high visibility, and real user impact
• Comfortable working in a codebase with shared patterns (monorepos, shared UI libraries, or platform constraints) and collaborating across teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication; thrives in a remote, documentation-driven culture
• Highly collaborative: partners closely with product, design, and backend to deliver end-to-end features

Desirable

• Our cross-functional squads often involve deep collaboration with other engineering teams, designers, and product managers
• Your excellent communication, both in meetings and asynchronously via slack will be a key tool in driving success
• This role predominantly focuses on the frontend but comfort and knowledge of the full tech stack is a must as this role works closely with backend and ML engineers to build our complete product
• You will build the user-facing experiences that are powered by Machine Learning and Generative AI
• Full-cycle software development will be your primary function, but we'll expect you to contribute in a number of ways, including advising on others' technical design, reviewing code, participating in interviews, and mentoring less experienced engineers
• When you are building software, you'll be doing more than just coding a ticket that is handed to you
• You'll contribute to the code strategy, architecture, implementation, delivery, and operation of systems, end-to-end
• You'll consider testability, upgradeability, scalability, and observability throughout the development process