Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Scribd Core)

• We’re hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to help build frontend features for our next generation of web product experiences
• Our current work involves high levels of collaboration with Machine Learning/AI and backend engineers to create AI/LLM-powered user experiences
• 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

Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Short-term/long-term disability plans
• 401k/RSP matching
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Learning & Development programs
• Quarterly stipend for Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort
• Mental Health support & resources
• Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family
• Referral Bonuses
• Book Benefit
• Sabbaticals
• Company wide events
• Team engagement budgets
• Vacation & Personal Days
• Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
• Flexible Sick Time
• Volunteer Day
• Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs- Strong collaboration skills and comfort working closely with both product and platform teams
• 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
• Long-term perspective on maintainability, extensibility, and developer experience
• Pragmatic approach to modernization, balancing ideal solutions with incremental, low-risk progress
• Experience collaborating with backend and platform teams to define clean integration patterns
• Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React
• Comfort operating in environments with high traffic, high visibility, and real user impact
• Hands-on experience with Next.js or similar modern web frameworks
• 6+ years of professional frontend software engineering experience
• Familiarity with Microfrontend architectures, monorepos, or shared frontend platforms
• Strong understanding of web performance, bundling, and optimization techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication; thrives in a remote, documentation-driven culture
• Highly collaborative: partners closely with product, design, and backend to deliver end-to-end features
• Comfortable working in a codebase with shared patterns (monorepos, shared UI libraries, or platform constraints) and collaborating across teams
• You care deeply about how technical decisions affect both developers and end users
• 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 consider performance, accessibility, SEO, quality, and observability as first-class concerns
• You think about frontend architecture as a product for other engineers, not just a delivery mechanism
• You’ve helped modernize frontend systems in production, not just greenfield projects
• Experience working with or migrating large, complex, or legacy frontend codebases