Scribd
San Francisco
201-500 employees
The best audiobooks, books, and more, available anywhere. Join us on our mission to change the way the world reads.
Senior Software Engineer (Backend + Data)
Senior Software Engineer (Backend + Data)
This job is no longer open
At Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”), we believe reading is more important than ever. Join our cast of characters as we work to change the way the world reads by building the world’s largest and most fascinating digital library: giving subscribers access to a growing collection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, documents, Scribd Originals, and more. In addition to works from major publishers and top authors, our community includes over 1.8M subscribers in nearly every country worldwide.
We’re defining the workforce of the future with Scribd Flex, a program that embraces multiple perspectives while leaning into our belief that no matter where each team member is, we trust them to accomplish our shared business goals. This program lets employees, in partnership with their manager, choose where they work while creating intentional in-person meetings with co-workers that build culture and connect us personally.
Remote employees must have their primary residence in: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Ontario (Canada), British Columbia (Canada), or Mexico.
*This list may not be complete or accurate, and candidates should speak with their recruiter about their specific location for remote work.
About the Team
The team is responsible for building and evolving Scribd’s content and metadata ingestion systems, publisher payout (royalties) pipelines, and the tools that enable our Content Operations team to manage the availability and quality of our large corpus of premium content. Our team has a variety of exciting challenges to tackle over the coming months and years. We continue to evolve and scale our content platform to enable Scribd’s continued focus on providing our customers a rich catalog of content and innovating how users discover and consume what’s most interesting and relevant for them.
You’ll have the opportunity to work with an awesome and diverse team using various technologies. For the role you will:
- Work closely with other engineers and product managers to design and build robust and scalable metadata ingestion, lifecycle, and management systems.
- Help drive the modernizing of our data pipelines and backend systems
- Evaluate and pitch new technologies and data integrations
- Own the entirety of your features, from design, implementation, testing, and rollout.
- Help identify gaps and improve the team’s instrumentation and monitoring of team-owned systems
- Help empower your teammates and peers by mentoring individuals, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the quality of design decisions and implementation by holding the team to a high standard.
Our Tech Stack
Our team uses numerous technologies and will continue to leverage the best tools available. The following are ones we use on a regular basis: Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, MySQL, Scala, Spark, Airflow, Databricks, Redis, AWS (SQS, Lambda, Transfer), and Terraform.
What We Are Looking For:
- 6+ years experience as a backend engineer shipping production-level systems
- A polyglot with programming skills in Ruby or similar object-oriented languages.
- Experience in Scala/Spark or a strong desire to learn
- Great communication – you can communicate effectively and proactively with teammates and stakeholders across different functions
- You are self-driven and motivated to learn and grow while contributing to the challenging and impactful opportunities ahead of our team and Scribd.
- You have a team-first mentality, value collaboration, and show up positively for your teammates and colleagues.
Benefits, Perks, and Wellbeing at Scribd
• Healthcare Insurance Coverage: Scribd pays for 100% of all employee’s Medical, Vision, and Dental premiums and a portion of dependent premiums
• 401k/RSP plans provided, plus company matching with no vesting period
• Professional development: generous continuing education annual budget for employees to attend conferences, classes, and pursue courses relevant to keeping skills current
• Quarterly Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort Benefit
• Concern mental health digital platform
• Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family
• Leaves: 12 weeks paid parental leave, company paid short-term/long-term disability plans and milestone Sabbaticals
• Generous Paid Time Off: Paid Holidays, Flexible Sick Time, Volunteer Day + office closure between Christmas Eve and New Years Day
• Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs which include learning & development opportunities, employee resource groups, and hiring best practices.
Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Scribd and the geographical location where you work.
Want to learn more? Check out our office and meet some of the team at www.linkedin.com/company/scribd/life
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 HR@Scribd.com about the need for adjustments at any point in the interview process.
Scribd 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. If you are still not sure or feel that you don't meet 100% of the requirements, apply anyway! We don't hire off keywords. We hire people who are willing to learn from mistakes and want to grow in their careers. Come join us in building something meaningful.
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