Senior Full Stack Engineer - Core Scribd; Fullstack

Overview

About The Company
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.

This posting reflects an approved, open position within the organization. We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer. We balance individual flexibility and community connections through Scribd Flex, our flexible work benefit.

Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd Inc. employees, regardless of location.

• Shape the core experience for 10M+ daily readers. Join the team behind Scribd’s primary reading experience and directly impact how millions of users explore and learn from our 300,000+ document corpus.
• Experiment at the intersection of product and AI. Partner with Product, Design, and AI/ML teams to rapidly prototype and launch experiments that elevate engagement and comprehension on the document reading page.
• Build new creation experiences from 0→1. Develop tools that empower users to synthesize research and produce study guides, presentations, and documents — all enhanced by generative AI.
• Improve SEO and AEO. Work with our SEO PM to improve search and answer engine traffic to the Core Scribd pages.
• Modernize our tech stack for the future. Lead efforts to decompose the Ruby-on-Rails monolith into a modern, modular microfront end architecture powered by Next.js and a distributed backend.

As a Full Stack Engineer on the Core Scribd team, you’ll contribute to building and maintaining both the frontend and backend systems powering Scribd’s document reading page. You’ll work on full-stack features that help users on a research journey find and parse the right document. This role spans React-based UI to distributed backend services, with collaboration across product, design, AI/ML and infrastructure teams.

• Work closely with Design and PM on new frontend features using React/Next.js, Graph
  
  QL, Typescript, and Ruby on Rails
• Contribute to a shared design system
• Make contributions to improving our frontend infrastructure
• Maintain and improve our backend in-document search service and spin up new services as needed in Python
• Collaborate with Data/ML and Content Pipeline teams to build new features and improvements to our document ingestion infrastructure

• Strong understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks, especially React
• 5+ years of professional experience across the stack, especially React, Next.js & Ruby on Rails
• Experience with database technologies (SQL, Postgres and MySQL)
• Understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with performance, accessibility, and SEO principles across the stack
• Strong collaboration skills with design, product, and other engineering teams
• Thoughtful approach to code quality, maintainability, and documentation

• Optional experience with Node and Go services

At Scribd, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Salary ranges are based on local cost of labor benchmarks for each role, level, and geographic location.

California: roughly $146,000 to $227,500. United States (outside California): roughly $120,000 to $216,500. Canada: roughly $152,500 CAD to $202,500 CAD. The salary range may vary with experience, skill sets, and other business needs. This position is eligible for equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

Employees must have their primary residence in or near listed cities, including surrounding metro areas within typical commuting distance across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

• 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…