Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to re-imagine the way the world reads. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
We're looking for senior software engineers (4+ years of experience) that want to work on one of those areas:
* The core Ruby on Rails application that powers the experience of millions of users every day (backend or full stack)
* Building the world's best recommendation engine for books (machine learning in Spark using Scala)
* Data engineering and tooling around our pipelines
* Our search infrastructure (Elasticsearch, Spark, and Go)
* Internal tools that glue together all of the moving parts
We are a small team which means you can have a ton of impact and bring in your own ideas. Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture with great perks for employees. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance. In general we care way more about your personality and hacking skills than what languages you've used so far. We have hired a bunch of people from these threads, including myself. If you have any questions you can reach out to me directly at nikos at scribd.com or better yet apply directly at https://www.scribd.com/about/engineering