Senior Android Engineer

About The Company

At Scribd (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. We support a culture where employees can be real and bold, debate and commit, and prioritize the customer. Flexibility is key:
Scribd Flex allows employees to choose the daily work‑style that best suits their needs, while occasional in‑person attendance is required for all employees.

As a Senior Android Engineer on the Everand team, you’ll help shape the future of how people discover, organize, and enjoy books. You’ll own the core consumption areas of the app—Home, Discover, Saved, and the Audio Player—building features that drive performance, personalization, and reliability while shaping the technical direction of our Android team.

• Design and build high‑quality Android experiences that make reading and listening personal, discoverable, and organized across Everand’s audiobook and eBook.
• 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 tradeoffs.
• You 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; translating 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.
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Benefits, Perks, And Wellbeing At Scribd
• Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Short‑term/long‑term disability plans
• 401k/RSP matching
• Onboarding stipend for home office peripherals + accessories
• Learning & Development allowance
• Learning & Development programs
• Quarterly stipend for Wellness, WiFi, etc.
• Mental Health support & resources
• Free subscription to the Scribd Inc. suite of products
• 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 Employee Resource Groups and programs that foster an inclusive and diverse workplace.
• Access to AI Tools:
  We provide free access to best‑in‑class AI tools, empowering you to boost productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate bold innovation.

We want our interview process to be accessible to everyone. You can inform us of any reasonable adjustments we can make to better accommodate your needs by emailing  about the need for adjustments at any point in the interview process.

Scribd is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply, and believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful.