Senior Android Engineer

About The Company

At Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”), our mission is to spark human curiosity. We create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas, and empower collective expertise through our four products:
Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable. We support a culture where employees can be real and bold, debate and commit, and prioritize the customer. Our flexible work benefit, Scribd Flex, allows teams to choose a daily work-style that best suits individual needs while encouraging intentional in‑person moments to build collaboration and culture. We believe in balancing individual flexibility and community connections.

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 growing, evolving out reading and listening experiences to make stories more accessible, personal, and engaging. You’ll own core consumption areas of the app (Home, Discover, Saved, Audio Player) and work closely with engineers, designers, QA, and product partners to align technical decisions with user needs and platform capabilities.

• Design and build high‑quality Android experiences that make reading and listening more personal, discoverable, and organized across Everand’s audiobook and eBook library.
• 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.

• You bring significant experience in Android development with a strong track record of building and shipping high‑quality consumer apps at scale.
• You write clean, maintainable Kotlin code and have deep experience with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flows, and modern Android architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI.
• You have a keen eye for usability, accessibility, and performance, and care about the craft of building intuitive, beautiful interfaces.
• You’re experienced in media or streaming apps (e.g., Exo Player or Media3) and understand the nuances of delivering seamless playback and offline experiences.
• You thrive in cross‑functional collaboration, communicating early and often with product, design, and QA partners to align on goals and trade‑offs.
• You take ownership from concept to release and value long‑term thinking over short‑term fixes.
• You enjoy mentoring, knowledge‑sharing, and helping the team move as a cohesive unit.
• You care deeply about the users; you understand what makes Everand impactful in their daily lives and translate that empathy into the features you build.

• 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 one part of a total compensation package and varies by role level, experience, and geographic location. In the United States, salary ranges are $120,000 to $216,500 (outside California) and $146,000 to $227,500 (California). In Canada, ranges are CAD 152,500 to 202,000. The role is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities:
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,…