Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding through its products. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Everand Core team to shape the future of how people discover and enjoy books by owning the backend platform that powers Everand's web and mobile experiences.
Responsibilities
- Your main focus will be to set technical direction for the Everand backend: writing and socializing design documents, driving architecture reviews, and turning ambiguous product intent into concrete backend design
- Own backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, cost, and observability
- Raise the ceiling for the team through PR review, mentorship, pairing, and by setting a high bar on design, testing, and ops
- Be the Everand backend voice in cross-team planning, and the glue in cross-functional execution
- Foster a culture of technical excellence while driving scalable, resilient, and observable systems that let teams move fast, simplify complexity, and deliver with confidence
- Modernize legacy systems and eliminate technical debt to improve velocity and scalability
- Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and Web, Mobile, and ML Engineers to deliver backend systems that support experimentation and a single source of truth across platforms, using data, metrics, and telemetry to uncover trends, resolve anomalies, and guide the team with clarity and foresight
- Champion a user-first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the reading and listening experience
Skills
- Significant experience in backend engineering, with a strong track record building and scaling distributed systems
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby, Scala, Go, or Python
- A keen eye for reliability and observability, and care about defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems
- Proven track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or modernization efforts
- Ability to thrive in cross-functional collaboration, holding your own with senior PM, design, and ML partners
- Enjoyment of mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and contributing to cross-team initiatives, including architecture review groups and design discussions
- Deep care about the users; understanding what makes Everand impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the systems you build
- Strong coding ability in Ruby
- Experience improving reliability, latency, or throughput in large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working alongside ML teams on recommendation or feed systems
- Familiarity with experimentation or feature-flagging platforms
Benefits
- Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
- 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
- Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products
- Enterprise access to leading AI tools
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