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Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Search

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5 hours ago
Toronto, Canada +10 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$151k - $226k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and own customer-facing frontend experiences for search, recommendations, and generative AI features.
  • Contribute to software architecture, implementation, delivery, operation, scalability, observability, testability, and upgradeability.
  • Collaborate with backend, machine learning, platform, product, design, and other engineering teams to deliver end-to-end features.
  • Advise on technical design, review code, participate in interviews, and mentor less experienced engineers.
  • Define frontend code strategy and incrementally modernize complex or legacy production codebases.
  • Consider performance, accessibility, SEO, quality, testing, and developer experience as first-class concerns.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Understanding of web performance, bundling, and optimization techniques.
  • Familiarity with microfrontend architectures, monorepos, shared frontend platforms, or shared UI libraries.
  • Experience collaborating with backend and platform teams on clean integration patterns.
  • Experience operating in high-traffic, high-visibility environments with real user impact.
  • Strong frontend systems thinking, architecture, ownership, collaboration, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience with large, complex, or legacy frontend codebases and production modernization is preferred.
  • Experience investing in testing and quality practices for large-scale migrations is preferred.

Benefits

  • Scribd Flex flexible work model with occasional in-person attendance required.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, plus mental health support and disability coverage.
  • Paid time off including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals.
  • Paid parental leave and family support benefits.
  • Retirement matching, employee equity, learning and development programs, and professional growth opportunities.
  • Wellness and home office stipends, complimentary access to Scribd products, and enterprise access to leading AI tools.
  • Employees must reside in or near specified cities in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.

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