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Senior Software Engineer - Web Platform

Scribd, Inc.

Washington · Hybrid Full-time Senior $146k – $228k/yr 1mo ago

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Requirements

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Lead major modernization workstreams — migrating complex legacy web applications into a modern Microfrontend ecosystem, creating repeatable migration patterns and shared foundations other teams can build on — while ensuring performance, developer experience, and user impact stay high throughout the transition.
  • 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

flexible work modelhealth coveragedental coveragevision coveragemental health supportdisability coveragepaid time offvacationsick timeholidayswinter breakvolunteer timesabbaticalspaid parental leavefamily support benefitsretirement matchingemployee equitylearning and development programsprofessional growth opportunitieswellness stipendshome office stipendscomplimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of productsenterprise access to leading AI tools

Skills

JavaScriptNext.jsRailsReactTypeScript

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