Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

🏢 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