{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"c65e70e2c35215ef49b8aa4e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c65e70e2c35215ef49b8aa4e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c65e70e2c35215ef49b8aa4e","title":"Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core","description":"Role Overview\r\nAs a Staff Software Engineer on the Everand Core team , you'll help shape the future of how people discover, organize, and enjoy books. You'll own the backend platform that powers Everand's web and mobile experiences, driving rapid experimentation, discoverability, personalization, and consumption journeys. You'll collaborate with engineers across search, recommendations, web, and mobile, as well as design and product partners, to align technical decisions with user needs and platform capabilities. You'll build systems that drive performance, personalization, and reliability, and help shape the technical direction of our backend team.\r\nKey Responsibilities\r\nSet technical direction for the Everand backend: write and socialize design documents, drive architecture reviews, and translate product intent into concrete backend design.\r\nOwn backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, cost, and observability.\r\nRaise the ceiling for the team through PR review, mentorship, pairing, and by setting a high bar on design, testing, and ops.\r\nAct as the Everand backend voice in cross-team planning and glue in cross-functional execution.\r\nFoster a culture of technical excellence while driving scalable, resilient, and observable systems that allow teams to move fast, simplify complexity, and deliver with confidence.\r\nModernize legacy systems and eliminate technical debt to improve velocity and scalability.\r\nPartner with Product, Design, Analytics, and Web, Mobile, and ML Engineers to deliver backend systems that support experimentation and a single source of truth across platforms, using data, metrics, and telemetry to uncover trends, resolve anomalies, and guide the team with clarity and foresight.\r\nChampion a user-first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the reading and listening experience.\r\nRequired Qualifications\r\nSignificant experience in backend engineering, with a strong track record building and scaling distributed systems.\r\nWrite clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or Python.\r\nKeen eye for reliability and observability, and care about defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems.\r\nProven track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or modernization efforts.\r\nThrives in cross-functional collaboration, can hold own with senior PM, design, and ML partners, and values system landing over correctness.\r\nEnjoys mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and contributing to cross-team initiatives, including architecture review groups and design discussions that shape Scribd's engineering culture.\r\nCare deeply about users; understands what makes Everand impactful in their daily lives and translates that empathy into the systems built.\r\nPreferred Qualifications\r\nStrong coding ability in Ruby.\r\nExperience improving reliability, latency, or throughput in large-scale distributed systems.\r\nExperience working alongside ML teams on recommendation or feed systems.\r\nFamiliarity with experimentation or feature-flagging platforms.\r\nCompensation\r\nCalifornia: $171,000 – $267,000\r\nOutside California, USA: $141,000 – $254,000\r\nCanada: $179,000 CAD – $228,500 CAD\r\nEquity and a comprehensive benefits package are also part of the total compensation.\r\nLocations\r\nUnited States: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C.\r\nCanada: Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver\r\nMexico: Mexico City\r\nBenefits\r\nScribd Flex (flexible work model)\r\nComprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage\r\nMental health support and disability coverage\r\nGenerous paid time off including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals\r\nPaid parental leave and family support benefits\r\nRetirement matching and employee equity\r\nLearning and development programs and professional growth opportunities\r\nWellness and home office stipends\r\nComplimentary access to the Scribd suite of products\r\nEnterprise access to leading AI tools\r\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\r\nScribd, Inc. 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. 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