Hybrid
San Francisco, CA
Senior (6+ yrs)
A month ago
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Scribd is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead web modernization efforts. The role involves migrating legacy apps to a microfrontend ecosystem using React, Next.js, and TypeScript. Requires 6+ years experience and strong collaboration skills.
🏢 About Scribd
Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding through its products Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable. It is a subscription-based digital library and document sharing platform serving billions globally.
🎯 The Role
We’re hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to help drive Scribd’s Web Modernization program and build the frontend foundations for our next generation of web product experiences. You’ll lead major modernization workstreams — migrating complex legacy web applications into a modern Microfrontend ecosystem, creating repeatable migration patterns and shared foundations other teams can build on — while ensuring performance, developer experience, and user impact stay high throughout the transition.
🛠️ Tech Stack
- React
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Microfrontend architecture
- Monorepo
- Web performance optimization
💼 What You'll Do
- Lead major modernization workstreams migrating legacy web applications into a modern Microfrontend ecosystem
- Create repeatable migration patterns and shared foundations for other teams
- Ship production-critical frontend code and define patterns and boundaries
- Partner cross-functionally to make architectural change practical and durable
- Build product features for publishers and readers after modernization
✅ What You'll Need
- 6+ years 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
- Excellent written and verbal communication
🌟 Nice to Have
- Experience working with or migrating large, complex, or legacy frontend codebases
- You’ve helped modernize frontend systems in production
- You think about frontend architecture as a product for other engineers
- 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
Why This Role?
This is a curated frontend role from Scribd. Every listing on OnlyFrontendJobs is hand-picked for frontend relevance and quality. The tech stack leans on React, TypeScript, Next.js. Tagged 💰 High Comp for above-market pay.
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