Senior Frontend Engineer - Core Scribd (React)

Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding. Our four products — Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.

Culture at Scribd, Inc.

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.

We 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.

So 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.

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

About the team and role

• Shape the core experience for 10M+ daily readers. Join the team behind Scribd’s primary reading experience and directly impact how millions of users explore and learn from our 300,000+ document corpus.
• Experiment at the intersection of product and AI. Partner closely with Product, Design, and AI/ML teams to rapidly prototype and launch experiments that elevate engagement and comprehension on the document reading page.
• Build new creation experiences from 0 1. Help develop innovative tools that empower users to synthesize research and produce study guides, presentations, and documents — all enhanced by generative AI.
• Improve SEO and AEO. Work with our SEO PM to improve search and answer engine traffic to the Core Scribd pages.
• Modernize our tech stack for the future. Lead efforts to decompose our Ruby-on-Rails monolith into a modern, modular Microfrontend architecture powered by Next.js and a distributed backend.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Core Scribd team, you’ll contribute to building and maintaining both the frontend powering Scribd’s document reading page. You’ll work on features that help users on a research journey find and parse the right document. This is a unique opportunity to work across a wide surface area from React-based UI to distributed backend services in collaboration with product, design, AI/ML and infrastructure teams.

A major focus for this team in 2026 is Web Modernization: migrating our legacy Doc Page SPA to a Next.js-powered Microfrontend architecture, enabling faster iteration, safer scaling, and long-term confidence in how Scribd’s web product evolves.

Key Attributes

• You are comfortable working cross-functionally with PM, Data, Design, QE, MLE, backend engineers
• You can handle coordinating across backend teams, ML teams, data teams, and platform teams
• You have high customer empathy
• You build for the long-term, you can reason about frontend architecture at scale
• You make trade-offs based on available data, and you are able to communicate those trade-offs/decisions clearly and succinctly

You Have / We're looking for / Requirements

• Strong understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks, especially React.
• 5+ years of experience working across the front-end stack, especially React.
• Familiarity of AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of performance, accessibility, and SEO principles across the stack.
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with design, product, and other engineering teams.
• A thoughtful approach to code quality, maintainability, and documentation.

At 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.

In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $146,000 [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California] to $227,500 [maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California].

In the United States, outside of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $120,000 [minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California] to $216,500 [maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California].

In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $152,500 CAD[minimum salary in our lowest geographic market] to $194,500