Scribd

Senior Android Engineer (Fable Core)

San Francisco · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago

KotlinAndroidJetpack ComposeCode ReviewAccessibilityCollaborationMentoring

About the role

Strengthen the app's architecture and performance.
Contribute to technical direction, helping evolve Fable's Android foundations and development best practices.
Champion a user-first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the experience.

Your main focus will be to design and build high-quality Android experiences.
Collaborate with product, design, QE, and engineers to deliver features that are performant, intuitive, and visually polished.
Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and design discussions to help the team grow and move cohesively.
You thrive in cross-functional collaboration, communicating early and often with product, design, and QA partners to align on goals and tradeoffs.
You care deeply about the users; understanding what makes Fable impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the features you build.

Our four products - Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable - help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.
You bring 5+ years of 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.

Experience improving app reliability, load performance, or crash metrics in large-scale Android apps.
Proficiency applying agentic / AI coding tools to Android development is a big plus.
It's a plus if you also have:

This posting reflects an approved, open position within the organization.
Exposure to Firebase or similar authentication frameworks, and subscription-oriented flows.

At Scribd, Inc., your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range.
In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply.

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
Partner with other engineers to improve code quality, test coverage, and release reliability.
Scribd Flex (flexible work model)

As a Senior Android Engineer on the Fable team, you'll help shape the future of reading, working on Fable, a successful app that helps people build a reading habit, find their next book, and connect with other readers.
Fable is a top 5 app in the Books category of the App Store with a growing, vibrant community.
You'll play a lead role in developing Fable for Android, planning and developing features across all parts of the app.
As Fable's lead Android engineer, you'll drive the architectural roadmap, planning and executing on performance and stability enhancements.
We value ownership of the product from end to end, bringing creativity and energy to building great experiences for the Fable community, and delighting our users with both aesthetics and utility.
We are looking for engineers who share these values.
We believe the best mobile experiences come from teams who care deeply about the people they build for, and each other.

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