Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core
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About the role
As 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 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. This includes everything from rapid experimentation to the services driving discoverability, personalization, and our core consumption journeys. 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 carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. 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.
What you'll bring
- You bring significant experience in backend engineering, with a strong track record building and scaling distributed systems.
- You have a keen eye for reliability and observability, and care about defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems.
- 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.
- You enjoy mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and contributing to cross-team initiatives, including architecture review groups and design discussions that shape Scribd's engineering culture.
- You care deeply about the users
- understanding what makes Everand impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the systems you build.
- You write clean, maintainable, and secure code in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or Python.