Staff Software Engineer (Backend), Everand Core at Scribd

Role overview

Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding. Our four products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.

We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where 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 the best work happens when individual flexibility is balanced with meaningful community connection. Scribd Flex empowers employees to choose the workstyle and location that support their best performance, while committing to intentional in-person moments that strengthen collaboration and culture. Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd, Inc. employees, regardless of location.

So what are we looking for in new team members? At Scribd, Inc., we hire for “GRIT.” Traditionally defined as the intersection of passion and perseverance toward long-term goals, GRIT reflects the mindset we expect from every employee. For us, it also serves as a practical framework for how we work: setting and achieving Goals, delivering Results within your role, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and strengthening the broader Team through collaboration and attitude.

This posting reflects an approved, open position within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technical work for Everand core backend systems.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, developer and customer teams.
• Improve reliability, testing, documentation and operational quality.
• Translate technical requirements into maintainable software or customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• We value quality over speed, thoughtful planning over short-term hacks, and continuous improvement over “just good enough.” We’re looking for engineers who share these values and who are energized by writing clean, scalable code, trying new technologies, and collaborating with diverse teams.
• We’re excited about you because…
• You write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or Python.
• You have a keen eye for reliability and observability, and care about defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems.
• You have a proven track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or modernization efforts.
• You thrive in cross-functional collaboration, holding your own with senior PM, design, and ML partners, and caring more about the system landing well than about being right.
• You enjoy mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and contributing to cross-team initiatives, including architecture review groups and design discussions that shape Scribd, Inc.'s engineering culture.
• You care deeply about the users; understanding what makes Everand impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the systems you build.
• Familiarity with experimentation or feature-flagging platforms.
• At Scribd, Inc., your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States.
• In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $171,000 [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California] to $267,000 [maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California].
• In the United States, outside of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $141,000 [minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California] to $254,000 [maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California].
• In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $179,000 CAD[minimum salary in our lowest geographic market] to $228,500 CAD[maximum salary in our highest geographic market].
• Are you currently based in a location where Scribd, Inc. can employ you?
• Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities. This includes surrounding metro areas or locations within a typical commuting distance:
• Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Dallas | Denver | Chicago | Houston | Jacksonville | Los Angeles | Miami | New York City | Phoenix | Portland | Sacramento | Salt Lake City | San Diego | San Francisco | Seattle | Washington D.C.

Technology in this role

• Python: We’re excited about you because… You write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or .
• Go: We’re excited about you because… You write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or .
• C: This includes surrounding metro areas or locations within a typical commuting distance: Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Dallas | Denver | Chicago | Houston | Jacksonville | Los Angeles | Miami | New York City | Phoenix | Portland | Sacramento | Salt Lake City | San Diego | San .
• Ruby: We’re excited about you because… You write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or .
• Scala: We’re excited about you because… You write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or .
• CI/CD: • Own backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, cost, and .
• CAN: We support a culture where our employees can be real and be .

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
• 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 accommodations@scribd.com about the need for adjustments at any point in the interview process.
• If you apply for a job with Scribd, Inc. or otherwise engage with us in connection with employment (including as an employee, contractor, or other personnel), the personal information we process in that context is subject to our Employee and Applicant Privacy Policy, which is available here .

About Scribd

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Everand Core team , you’ll help shape the future of how people discover, organize, and enjoy books. Everand is growing, and we’re evolving our reading and listening experiences to make stories more accessible, personal, and engaging for our readers.

You'll play a vital role in connecting readers with the stories they love by owning the backend platform that powers Everand's web and mobile experiences. This includes everything from rapid experimentation to the services driving discoverability, personalization, and our core consumption journeys. You'll work closely with engineers across search, recommendations, web, and mobile, as well as design and product partners, to align technical decisions with user needs and platform capabilities. Along the way, you'll build systems that drive performance, personalization, and reliability, and help shape the technical direction of our backend team.

We value quality over speed, thoughtful planning over short-term hacks, and continuous improvement over “just good enough.” We’re looking for engineers who share these values and who are energized by writing clean, scalable code, trying new technologies, and collaborating with diverse teams.

We believe the best experiences come from teams who care deeply about the people they build for, and each other.

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