Scribd
Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Search
San Francisco · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- Our cross-functional squads often involve deep collaboration with other engineering teams, designers, and product managers.
- Your excellent communication, both in meetings and asynchronously via slack will be a key tool in driving success.
- You'll contribute to the code strategy, architecture, implementation, delivery, and operation of systems, end-to-end.
Responsibilities
- Strong ownership mindset, taking responsibility for frontend systems from design through long-term evolution
- 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.
Requirements
- Our four products - Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable - help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to reason about frontend architecture at scale
Nice to have
- Experience working with or migrating large, complex, or legacy frontend codebases
- 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
- San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States.
Skills
- Strong collaboration skills and comfort working closely with both product and platform teams.
Compensation
- At Scribd, Inc., your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Mental health support and disability coverage
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals
- Paid parental leave and family support benefits
- Retirement matching and employee equity
- Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities
- Wellness and home office stipends
- You will build the user-facing experiences that are powered by Machine Learning and Generative AI.
- Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
Company info
- Discovery Applications is the face of Scribd's Machine Learning and Discovery Engineering Division.
- It is dedicated to building the customer-facing web experiences that power our cutting-edge search, recommendations, and generative AI features.
- This full stack team builds and owns the end-to-end discovery experience across Scribd and Everand, turning machine learning capabilities into intuitive, customer-facing features.
- Joining this team means you will play a key role in delivering the user value of the pioneering machine learning work, creating tangible impacts through exceptional user experiences.
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