Senior Android Engineer

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At Scribd, our mission is to spark human curiosity. We create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas and information, and empower collective expertise through our products:
Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable. We support a culture where employees can be real and bold, debate and commit, and prioritize the customer. Flexible work benefits allow employees to choose daily work‑style that best suits their needs, while occasional in‑person attendance is required for all.

As a Senior Android Engineer on the Everand team, you’ll help shape the future of how people discover, organize, and enjoy books. Everand is evolving reading and listening experiences to make stories more accessible, personal, and engaging.

• Design and build high‑quality Android experiences that make reading and listening more personal, discoverable, and organized.
• Collaborate with product, design, QE, and engineers to deliver features that are performant, intuitive, and visually polished.
• Strengthen the app’s architecture and performance, ensuring smooth playback, fast load times, and a reliable offline experience.
• Contribute to technical direction, helping evolve Everand’s Android foundations and development best practices.
• Partner with other engineers to improve code quality, test coverage, and release reliability.
• Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and design discussions to help the team grow and move cohesively.
• Champion a user‑first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the reading and listening experience.

• Significant experience in Android development with a strong track record of building and shipping high‑quality consumer apps at scale.
• Clean, maintainable Kotlin code with deep experience in Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flows, and modern Android architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI.
• Keen eye for usability, accessibility, and performance, and care about building intuitive, beautiful interfaces.
• Experience in media or streaming apps (e.g., Exo Player or Media3) and understanding of delivering seamless playback and offline experiences.
• Thrives in cross‑functional collaboration, communicating early and often with product, design, and QA partners.
• Takes ownership from concept to release and values long‑term thinking over short‑term fixes.
• Enjoys mentoring, knowledge‑sharing, and helping the team move as a cohesive unit.
• Deep care for users, understanding what makes Everand impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into features.

• Experience improving app reliability, load performance, or crash metrics in large‑scale Android apps.
• Familiarity with dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger) and Compose Navigation.
• Exposure to Auth0 or similar authentication frameworks.
• Interest in cross‑platform collaboration with teams working in iOS or React Native.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package and is determined within a range based on local cost of labor benchmarks. For example, in San Francisco, the salary range is $146,000–$227,500. In other U.S. markets, the range is $120,000–$216,500; in Canada, the range is $152,500 CAD–$202,000 CAD. The salary range listed applies to the level at which the job is scoped; higher or lower pay ranges may apply for different levels.

This position is also eligible for competitive equity ownership and a comprehensive benefits package.

Employees must have a primary residence in or near one of the following cities (or surrounding metro areas):

• United States:
  Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D‑C.
• Canada:
  Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver.
• Mexico:
  Mexico City.

• Benefits/perks may vary by employment nature and location.
• Healthcare Insurance (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave.
• Short‑term/long‑term disability plans.
• 401(k)/RSP…