Senior Frontend Engineer (Discovery Applications), 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 Discovery Applications Team

Discovery Applications is the face of Scribd’s Machine Learning and Discovery Engineering Division. It is dedicated to building the customer-facing web experiences that power our cutting-edge search, recommendations, and generative AI features. This full stack team builds and owns the end-to-end discovery experience across Scribd and Everand, turning machine learning capabilities into intuitive, customer-facing features.

Joining this team means you will play a key role in delivering the user value of the pioneering machine learning work, creating tangible impacts through exceptional user experiences.

As a Frontend Engineer on Discovery Applications

Our cross-functional squads often involve deep collaboration with other engineering teams, designers, and product managers. Your excellent communication, both in meetings and asynchronously via slack will be a key tool in driving success.

This role predominantly focuses on the frontend but comfort and knowledge of the full tech stack is a must as this role works closely with backend and ML engineers to build our complete product. You will build the user-facing experiences that are powered by Machine Learning and Generative AI.

Full-cycle software development will be your primary function, but we'll expect you to contribute in a number of ways, including advising on others' technical design, reviewing code, participating in interviews, and mentoring less experienced engineers.

When you are building software, you'll be doing more than just coding a ticket that is handed to you. You'll contribute to the code strategy, architecture, implementation, delivery, and operation of systems, end-to-end. You'll consider testability, upgradeability, scalability, and observability throughout the development process.

Must Have Skills and Experience

• 3–5 years building and shipping customer-facing frontend applications with React and TypeScript
• Strong grasp of modern frontend fundamentals: state management, component architecture, accessibility, testing, and UI quality
• Experience integrating frontends with APIs (REST/GraphQL) and comfort working in a Rails-backed product environment
• Ability to build high-quality interactive experiences (including real-time/streaming UI patterns) with attention to UX polish
• Strong understanding of web performance (profiling, bundling, rendering, caching) and a track record of improving it in production
• Comfortable working in a codebase with shared patterns (monorepos, shared UI libraries, or platform constraints) and collaborating across teams
• 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

Nice to Have Skills and Experience

• Excited to build AI-powered product experiences end-to-end (0 1 prototyping, rapid iteration, and shipping to production).
• Experience designing search, recommendations, and discovery UX (relevance, ranking, personalization, evaluation).
• Familiarity with LLM/AI integrations in web apps (streaming UIs, prompt/tool patterns, human-in-the-loop workflows).
• Experience with Next.js, GraphQL, and modern frontend architecture patterns.
• Built or evolved a design system / component library that enables fast, consistent product delivery.
• Comfort operating in high-traffic, high-visibility environments with real customer impact.
• Ability to diagnose and improve performance, caching, and observability in modern web appli