Scribd
Software Engineer II (Fullstack), Growth Platform
San Francisco · Mid · Contract
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About the role
- We are seeking a determined Fullstack Software Engineer to join our Growth Platform team.
- Ensuring scalability, testability, and maintainability throughout the development process.
- Staying proactive by proposing innovative solutions to technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- In this role, you will design, build, and scale the shared systems that power Growth at Scribd, from self-service tooling and experimentation infrastructure to the data integrations behind our lifecycle marketing.
- You'll participate in technical design, code reviews, and best practice implementation while identifying opportunities to improve systems and processes.
- Collaborating across teams to drive impactful projects forward.
- 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
- 3+ years of professional software development experience.
- Proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like React.
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and its ecosystem.
- Our four products - Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable - help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.
Nice to have
- Experience with instrumenting and working on data integration projects, such as event tracking, data pipelines, or syncing user data between internal systems and third-party platforms.
- Have worked in a Growth Engineering or Growth Platform team at a product-led company.
- Experience with backend technologies like Redis, Kafka, MySQL, and Terraform.
- Knowledge of GraphQL and Next.js.
- Familiarity with migrating monolithic architectures to microservices/frontends.
- San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States.
- We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience
- job-related skill sets
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
- Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
Company info
- The Growth Platform team is the infrastructure squad for Growth at Scribd.
- We build the shared services and tooling that the other Growth teams build on, and we empower marketers, lifecycle teams, and partner channels by delivering MarTech solutions that drive efficiency, data-informed decisions, and scalable user acquisition across our brands: Scribd, Everand, Slideshare, and Fable.
- Our work spans self-service tooling, experimentation infrastructure, acquisition tracking and attribution, and integrations that share customer and event data with third-party platforms.
- Because we're a platform team, a lot of what we build ships through other teams' products, so we care about reliability and scalability, and about making our systems easy for others to build on.
- The team values collaboration, pragmatic problem-solving, and a culture of technical excellence.
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