Senior Software Engineer - Web Platform

Overview

This posting reflects an approved, open position within the organization. Scribd Inc. is committed to a culture where employees can be real and bold, debate and commit, and empower action to prioritize the customer. Scribd offers a flexible work benefit, Scribd Flex, allowing employees to choose a daily work-style in partnership with their manager. Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd Inc.

employees, regardless of location.

At Scribd Inc. (pronounced “scribbed”), our mission is to spark human curiosity. Join our team as we create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas and information, and empower collective expertise through our four products:
Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable.

The Web Platform team builds the shared foundations that enable Scribd’s product teams to ship high-quality web experiences efficiently. We focus on scalable frontend architecture, shared libraries and tooling, and durable patterns that improve velocity, reliability, and maintainability across our web ecosystem. A major focus for the team is Web Modernization: migrating legacy SPAs to a Next.js-powered Microfront end architecture, enabling faster iteration, safer scaling, and long-term confidence in how Scribd’s web product evolves.

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform to help drive Scribd’s Web Modernization program and build the frontend foundations for our next generation of web product experiences.

You’ll lead major modernization work streams — migrating complex legacy web applications into a modern Microfront end ecosystem, creating repeatable migration patterns and shared foundations other teams can build on — while ensuring performance, developer experience, and user impact stay high throughout the transition.

This is a hands-on role with broad influence: you’ll ship production-critical frontend code, define patterns and boundaries that other teams build on, and partner cross-functionally to make architectural change practical and durable.

Key Attributes

• 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/Type Script and React
• Hands-on experience with Next.js or similar modern web frameworks
• Experience working with or migrating large, complex, or legacy frontend codebases
• Familiarity with Microfront end architectures, monorepos, or shared frontend platforms
• Familiarity integrating modern frontends with Rails-backed systems is a plus
• 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

• You’ve helped modernize frontend systems in production, not just greenfield projects
• You think about frontend architecture as a product for other engineers, not just a delivery mechanism
• You consider performance, accessibility, SEO, quality, and observability as first-class concerns
• You invest in testing and quality practices that make large-scale migrations safe and repeatable
• You enjoy untangling complexity and leaving systems better than you found them
• You care deeply about how technical decisions affect both developers and end users

At Scribd, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range based on local market benchmarks. Salary ranges vary by location and level. Specific ranges noted below are illustrative; actual offers may differ based on experience and location.

San Francisco is our highest…