Posted over 2 years ago

At Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”), we believe reading is more important than ever. Join our cast of characters as we work to change the way the world reads by building the world’s largest and most fascinating digital library: giving subscribers access to a growing collection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, documents, Scribd Originals, and more. In addition to works from major publishers and top authors, our community includes over 1.5M subscribers in nearly every country worldwide.

Our team The Publisher Content Management team is responsible for building and evolving Scribd’s content and metadata ingestion services, publisher payout pipelines and the tools that enable our Content Operations team to manage the availability of our ever growing corpus of premium content. The team’s technical work is currently divided between our online Rails application and our offline Databricks environment (Scala, Spark, Airflow). Many of the systems we’re responsible for span both environments, so engineers regularly work within both. Though the tech stacks differ between environments, the engineering work covers the same domains. Our team has a lot of interesting and challenging problems to tackle over the next few years as we continue to improve our systems and tools, while also investing in evolving and scaling them.

The team is located in San Francisco, but we foster a remote first culture. We use tools that emphasize asynchronous communication (Slack, Github, Jira, Google Docs) but will also pair program or jump into a meeting room when those are the best approaches. Regardless of the medium, excellent communication skills are a must. We operate with autonomy (developers closest to the code will make the most well-informed decisions) while holding ourselves and each other accountable for using good judgement when faced with each day’s unique challenges.

We value team first Individuals. We work collaboratively, not as engineers working on individual projects in silos. We continually strive for inclusivity and strongly value diversity. We recognize that everyone has a unique set of work and life experiences, and believe that a broader set of perspectives will produce better results for all. Each day provides both opportunities to perform and opportunities to learn. We support others’ growth and celebrate our collective achievements.

The role As the Lead Software Engineer of the Publisher Content Management team, your job will be to provide hands-on technical leadership across all of the team’s in-progress work as well as the team’s technical roadmap. The responsibilities include: • Leading the design, implementation, and delivery of your primary project. • Managing all aspects of technical project delivery, including system and architectural design, project planning, implementation, deployment, and operations. • Ensuring consistency of design, adherence to Scribd engineering principles and practices, and operational excellence across all team work. • Working closely with the team’s Engineering Manager to prioritize technical projects and improvements relative to requested feature work. • Help shape the long term roadmap for evolving team systems to support orders of magnitude growth of Scribd’s subscribers, and publisher/premium content. • Being a presence that makes every engineer on the team better via mentoring, coaching, and leading by example.

As the responsibilities demonstrate, the Lead Software Engineer role is more than just an advanced IC role. It is a hands-on leadership role, where you will balance the responsibilities of project work with technical team leadership. Your years of experience allow you to give guidance on projects you aren’t deeply familiar with and quickly diagnose root causes of bugs. You and the Engineering Manager will be a team, with your expertise and ability to handle daily technical blockers enabling the Engineering Manager to focus on interviewing and hiring, people management, and project and roadmap planning. If these responsibilities strongly match your interests in your next role, then you should apply!

Office or remote? At this time the role will start as full-time remote, as all of our employees are working from home. When everyone is able to return to the office this role is available at our San Francisco office. This position can also be fully remote for candidates with experience leading development remotely.

Requirements • 10+ years of experience as a professional software engineer with a focus on backend systems • 3+ years experience working with data pipelines • Experience managing multiple projects or a strong desire to take on these new responsibilities • Deep knowledge of common data architectures and industry technologies • Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent professional experience

Benefits, Perks, and Wellbeing at Scribd

• Healthcare Benefits: Scribd pays 100% of employee’s Medical, Vision, and Dental premiums and 70% of dependents • Leaves: Paid parental leave, 100% company paid short-term/long-term disability plans and milestone Sabbaticals • 401k plan through Fidelity, plus company matching with no vesting period • Stock Options - every employee is an owner in Scribd!  • Generous Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, Flexible Sick Time, Volunteer Day + office closure between Christmas Eve and New Years Day • Referral bonuses • Professional development: generous annual budget for our employees to attend conferences, classes, and other events • Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs which include learning & development opportunities, employee resource groups, and hiring best practices. • Learning & Development and Coaching programs • Monthly Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort Benefit • Concern mental health digital platform • Work-life balance flexibility • Company events + Scribdchats • Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family

Want to learn more? Check out our office and meet some of the team at www.linkedin.com/company/scribd/life

Scribd is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful.

Location

Remote - Us/canada