1 month ago
Base Salary
$141k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for the Everand backend through design documents, architecture reviews, and concrete backend designs.
- Own backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, cost, and observability.
- Build scalable, resilient, performant, personalized, and observable systems for Everand’s web and mobile experiences.
- Modernize legacy systems, eliminate technical debt, and lead large-scale migrations.
- Raise engineering quality through code review, mentorship, pairing, design standards, testing, and operations practices.
- Represent Everand backend engineering in cross-team planning and cross-functional execution.
- Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, Web, Mobile, and ML Engineers on experimentation and cross-platform systems.
- Use data, metrics, and telemetry to identify trends, resolve anomalies, and guide technical decisions.
- Champion user-first technical decisions that improve the reading and listening experience.
Requirements
- Significant backend engineering experience with a strong record of building and scaling distributed systems.
- Clean, maintainable, and secure coding ability in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby, Scala, Go, or Python; Ruby is preferred.
- Strong reliability and observability skills, including defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems.
- Proven technical leadership in architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and large-scale migrations or modernization.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with senior product managers, designers, and ML partners.
- Interest in mentoring, knowledge-sharing, architecture review groups, and cross-team engineering initiatives.
- Strong coding ability in Ruby is a plus.
- Experience improving reliability, latency, or throughput in large-scale distributed systems is a plus.
- Experience working with ML teams on recommendation or feed systems is a plus.
- Familiarity with experimentation or feature-flagging platforms is a plus.
Benefits
- Scribd Flex flexible work model with occasional in-person attendance required; employees must live in or near approved metropolitan areas.
- 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 and employee equity.
- Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities.
- Wellness and home office stipends.
- Complimentary access to Scribd, Inc. products and enterprise access to leading AI tools.
