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Our four products - Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable - help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.\nCulture at Scribd, Inc.\nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nSo 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.\nThis posting reflects an approved, open position within the organization.\nAbout the team and role\nAs aStaff 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.\nYou'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.\nWe 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.\nWe believe the best experiences come from teams who care deeply about the people they build for, and each other.\nAbout the Role…\nYour 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.\n\nOwn backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, cost, and observability.\n\nRaise the ceiling for the team through PR review, mentorship, pairing, and by setting a high bar on design, testing, and ops.\n\nBe the Everand backend voice in cross-team planning, and the glue in cross-functional execution.\n\nFoster a culture of technical excellence while driving scalable, resilient, and observable systems that let teams move fast, simplify complexity, and deliver with confidence.\n\nModernize legacy systems and eliminate technical debt to improve velocity and scalability.\n\nPartner 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.\n\nChampion a user-first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the reading and listening experience.\n\nWe’re excited about you because…\nYou bring significant experience in backend engineering, with a strong track record building and scaling distributed systems.\n\nYou write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or Python.\n\nYou have a keen eye for reliability and observability, and care about defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems.\n\nYou have a proven track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or modernization efforts.\n\nYou 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.\n\nYou enjoy mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and contributing to cross-team initiatives, including architecture review groups and design discussions that shape Scribd, Inc.'s engineering culture.\n\nYou care deeply about the users; understanding what makes Everand impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the systems you build.\n\nIt’s a plus if you also have -\nStrong coding ability in Ruby.\n\nExperience improving reliability, latency, or throughput in large-scale distributed systems.\n\nExperience working alongside ML teams on recommendation or feed systems.\n\nFamiliarity with experimentation or feature-flagging platforms.\n\n---\nAt 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.\nIn the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $171,000 [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California] to $255,000 [maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California].\nIn 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 $242,000 [maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California].\nIn Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $179,000 CAD[minimum salary in our lowest geographic market] to $225,000 CAD[maximum salary in our highest geographic market].\nWe carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.\nAdditional Locations:\nAny metro in Canada\nCharlotte, NC\nWorking at Scribd, Inc.\nAre you currently based in a location where Scribd, Inc. can employ you?\nEmployees 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:\nUnited States:\nAtlanta | 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.\nCanada:\nOttawa | Toronto | Vancouver\nMexico:\nMexico City\nBenefits at Scribd, Inc.\nScribd Flex (flexible work model)\n\nComprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage\n\nMental health support and disability coverage\n\nGenerous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals\n\nPaid parental leave and family support benefits\n\nRetirement matching and employee equity\n\nLearning and development programs and professional growth opportunities\n\nWellness and home office stipends\n\nComplimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products\n\nEnterprise access to leading AI tools\n\nGet to Know Scribd, Inc.\nAbout Scribd, Inc.\nLife at Scribd, Inc.\nWe 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  about the need for adjustments at any point in the interview process.\nIf 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.\nScribd, Inc. is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply, and believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. 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