Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

**About The Company**:
At Scribd Inc. (pronounced “scribbed”), our mission is to spark human curiosity. Join our team as we create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas and information, and empower collective expertise through our four products: Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable.

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

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.

When it comes to workplace structure, we believe in balancing individual flexibility and community connections. It’s through our flexible work benefit, Scribd Flex, that employees - in partnership with their manager - can choose the daily work-style that best suits their individual needs. A key tenet of Scribd Flex is our prioritization of intentional in-person moments to build collaboration, culture, and connection. For this reason, occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd Inc. employees, regardless of their location.

So what are we looking for in new team members? Well, we hire for “GRIT”. The textbook definition of GRIT is demonstrating the intersection of passion and perseverance towards long term goals. At Scribd Inc., we are inspired by the potential that this can unlock, and ask each of our employees to pursue a GRIT-ty approach to their work. In a tactical sense, GRIT is also a handy acronym that outlines the standards we hold ourselves and each other to. Here’s what that means for you: we’re looking for someone who showcases the ability to set and achieve **G**oals, achieve **R**esults within their job responsibilities, contribute **I**nnovative ideas and solutions, and positively influence the broader **T**eam through collaboration and attitude.

**About the Team**

The **Web Platform** team builds the shared foundations that enable Scribd’s product teams to ship high-quality web experiences efficiently. We focus on scalable frontend architecture, shared libraries and tooling, and durable patterns that improve velocity, reliability, and maintainability across our web ecosystem.

A major focus for the team is **Web Modernization**: migrating legacy SPAs to a Next.js-powered Microfrontend architecture, enabling faster iteration, safer scaling, and long-term confidence in how Scribd’s web product evolves.

**About the Role**

We’re hiring a **Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform**to help drive Scribd’s Web Modernization program and build the frontend foundations for our next generation of web product experiences.

This is a hands-on role with broad influence: you’ll ship production-critical frontend code, define patterns and boundaries that other teams build on, and partner cross-functionally to make architectural change practical and durable.

**What You’ll Bring**

**Key Attributes**
- Strong ownership mindset, taking responsibility for frontend systems from design through long-term evolution
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to reason about frontend architecture at scale
- Pragmatic approach to modernization, balancing ideal solutions with incremental, low-risk progress
- Strong collaboration skills and comfort working closely with both product and platform teams.
- Long-term perspective on maintainability, extensibility, and developer experience

**Experience We Value**
- 6+ years of professional frontend software engineering experience
- Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React
- Hands-on experience with Next.js or similar modern web frameworks
- Experience working with or migrating large, complex, or legacy frontend codebases
- Familiarity with Microfrontend architectures, monorepos, or shared frontend platforms
- Familiarity integrating modern frontends with Rails-backed systems is a plus
- Strong understanding of web performance, bundling, and optimization techniques
- Experience collaborating with backend and platform teams to define clean integration patterns
- Comfort operating in environments with high traffic, high visibility, and real user impact

**What Sets You Apart**
- You’ve helped modernize frontend systems in production, not just greenfield projects
- You think about frontend architecture as a product for other engineers, not just a delivery mechanism
- You consider performance, accessibility, SEO, quality, and observability as first-class concerns
- You invest in testing and quality practices that make large-scale migrations safe and repeatable
- You enjoy untangling complexity and leaving systems better than you found them
- You care deeply about how technical decisions affect both developers and end users

At Scribd, 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 h