Software Engineer II; React​/Full stack - Core Scribd

Position: Software Engineer II (React/Full stack -  Core Scribd)

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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 our employees can be real and bold; we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer.

We believe in balancing individual flexibility and community connections. Through our flexible work benefit, Scribd Flex, employees – in partnership with their manager – can choose the daily work‑style that best suits their needs. A key tenet is prioritizing in‑person moments to build collaboration, culture, and connection. For this reason, occasional in‑person attendance is required for all employees, regardless of location.

We look for “GRIT”: the ability to set and achieve goals, deliver results, bring innovative ideas, and positively influence the broader team through collaboration and attitude.

About The Team And Role

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 is a unique opportunity to work across a wide surface area from React‑based UI to distributed backend services in collaboration with product, design, AI/ML and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• 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 our Data/ML and Content Pipeline teams to build new features and make improvements to our document ingestion infrastructure

Requirements

• Strong understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks, especially React.
• 3‑5 years of experience working 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 the ability to work closely with design, product, and other engineering teams.
• A thoughtful approach to code quality, maintainability, and documentation.

Bonus points

• Occasional work with Node and Go services

Compensation and Benefits

Base pay is part of your total compensation and is based on local cost of labor benchmarks for each location. Pay ranges: (for example, $119,000 – $185,500 in San Francisco, CA; $98,000 – $176,500 in other U.S. markets; $124,500 CAD – $165,000 CAD in Canada). The role is also eligible for competitive equity ownership and a generous benefits package.

Benefits and perks (summarized) include:

• Health insurance (medical/dental/vision) 100% paid
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Short‑term/long‑term disability plans
• 401(k)/RSP matching
• Onboarding stipend for home‑office peripherals
• Learning & development allowance and programs
• Quarterly stipend for wellness, Wi‑Fi, etc.
• Mental health support & resources
• Free subscription to Scribd Inc. suite of products
• Referral bonuses, book benefit, sabbaticals, company‑wide events, team engagement budgets, vacation & personal days, paid holidays (including winter break), flexible sick time, volunteer days, employee resource groups, AI tools access

Working at Scribd, inc.

Employees must have primary residence in or near one of the listed cities (U.S., Canada, or Mexico). Eligible cities are listed under the “United States”, “Canada”, and “Mexico” sections above.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function / Industries

Engineering and Information Technology – Software Development

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.

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

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