Our four products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise. and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer. We believe the best work happens when individual flexibility is balanced with meaningful community connection.

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Flex empowers employees to choose the workstyle and location that support their best performance, while committing to intentional in‑person moments that strengthen collaboration and culture. Traditionally defined as the intersection of passion and perseverance toward long‑term goals, GRIT reflects the mindset we expect from every employee. For us, it also serves as a practical framework for how we work: setting and achieving Goals, delivering Results within your role, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and strengthening the broader Team through collaboration and attitude.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Everand Core team , you’ll help shape the future of how people discover, organize, and enjoy books. Everand is growing, and we’re evolving our reading and listening experiences to make stories more accessible, personal, and engaging for our readers. You’ll play a vital role in connecting readers with the stories they love by owning the backend platform that powers Everand's web and mobile experiences.

You’ll work closely 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. Along the way, you’ll build systems that drive performance, personalization, and reliability, and help shape the technical direction of our backend team. We value quality over speed, thoughtful planning over short‑term hacks, and continuous improvement over “just good enough.” We’re looking for engineers who share these values and who are energized by writing clean, scalable code,



trying new technologies, and collaborating with diverse teams.

Your main focus will be to set technical direction for the Everand backend: writing and socializing design documents, driving architecture reviews, and turning ambiguous product intent into concrete backend design. Own backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, cost, and observability. Foster a culture of technical excellence while driving scalable, resilient, and observable systems that let teams move fast, simplify complexity, and deliver with confidence.

Modernize legacy systems and eliminate technical debt to improve velocity and scalability. Partner 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. Champion a user‑first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the reading and listening experience.

You bring significant experience in backend engineering, with a strong track record building and scaling distributed systems. You write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or Python. You have a proven track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large‑scale migrations or modernization efforts.

You thrive in cross‑functional collaboration, holding your own with senior PM,



design, and ML partners, and caring more about the system landing well than about being right. Solid coding ability in Ruby.

Experience working alongside ML teams on recommendation or feed systems. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $179,000 CAD[minimum salary in our lowest geographic market] to $225,000 CAD[maximum salary in our highest geographic market]. relevant education or training; In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply.

This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.

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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 Wellness and home office stipends Enterprise access to leading AI tools If you apply for a job with Scribd, Inc. or otherwise engage with us in connection with employment (including as an employee, contractor, or other personnel), the personal information we process in that context is subject to our Employee and Applicant Privacy Policy, which is available . Scribd, 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. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply, and believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas.

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📌 Staff Software Engineer, Core Everand (Vancouver)
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📍 Vancouver