Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) - Scribd Core
About The Position
Scribd, Inc. is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to drive the Web Modernization program and build the frontend foundations for their next generation of web product experiences. This role involves leading major modernization workstreams, migrating complex legacy web applications into a modern Microfrontend ecosystem, and creating repeatable migration patterns and shared foundations for other teams. The engineer will ensure performance, developer experience, and user impact remain high during the transition. This is a hands-on role with broad influence, requiring the engineer to ship production-critical frontend code, define patterns and boundaries for other teams, and partner cross-functionally to make architectural change practical and durable. Post-modernization, the role will transition to a product team to build features for publishers and readers.
Requirements
- Strong ownership mindset, taking responsibility for frontend systems from design through long-term evolution.
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to reason about frontend architecture at scale.
- Pragmatic approach to modernization, balancing ideal solutions with incremental, low-risk progress.
- Strong collaboration skills and comfort working closely with both product and platform teams.
- Long-term perspective on maintainability, extensibility, and developer experience.
- 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.
- Familiarity with Microfrontend architectures, monorepos, or shared frontend platforms.
- Strong understanding of web performance, bundling, and optimization techniques.
- Experience collaborating with backend and platform teams to define clean integration patterns.
- Comfort operating in environments with high traffic, high visibility, and real user impact.
- 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 Haves
- Experience working with or migrating large, complex, or legacy frontend codebases.
- You’ve helped modernize frontend systems in production, not just greenfield projects.
- You think about frontend architecture as a product for other engineers, not just a delivery mechanism.
- You consider performance, accessibility, SEO, quality, and observability as first-class concerns.
- You invest in testing and quality practices that make large-scale migrations safe and repeatable.
- You enjoy untangling complexity and leaving systems better than you found them.
- You care deeply about how technical decisions affect both developers and end users.
Responsibilities
- Drive Scribd’s Web Modernization program.
- Build the frontend foundations for the next generation of web product experiences.
- Lead major modernization workstreams, migrating complex legacy web applications into a modern Microfrontend ecosystem.
- Create repeatable migration patterns and shared foundations for other teams.
- Ensure performance, developer experience, and user impact stay high throughout the transition.
- Ship production-critical frontend code.
- Define patterns and boundaries that other teams build on.
- Partner cross-functionally to make architectural change practical and durable.
- Work on a product team to build product features that help publishers upload their documents to Scribd and readers consume these documents.
Benefits
- Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Mental health support and disability coverage
- Generous 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 the Scribd, Inc. suite of products
- Enterprise access to leading AI tools
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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