Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding through products including Fable, a reading and social discovery app. The Senior Android Engineer will lead Android development for Fable, shaping its architecture, building features, improving performance and stability, and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver polished user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Your main focus will be to design and build high-quality Android experiences
- Collaborate with product, design, QE, and engineers to deliver features that are performant, intuitive, and visually polished
- Strengthen the app’s architecture and performance
- Contribute to technical direction, helping evolve Fable’s Android foundations and development best practices
- Partner with other engineers to improve code quality, test coverage, and release reliability
- Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and design discussions to help the team grow and move cohesively
- Champion a user-first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the experience
Skills
- You bring 5+ years of experience in Android development with a strong track record of building and shipping high-quality consumer apps at scale
- You write clean, maintainable Kotlin code and have deep experience with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flows, and modern Android architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI
- You have a keen eye for usability, accessibility, and performance, and care about the craft of building intuitive, beautiful interfaces
- You thrive in cross-functional collaboration, communicating early and often with product, design, and QA partners to align on goals and tradeoffs
- You take ownership from concept to release and value long-term thinking over short-term fixes
- You enjoy mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and helping the team move as a cohesive unit
- You care deeply about the users; understanding what makes Fable impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the features you build
- You're keen to apply AI coding tools to increase development velocity, and automate various parts of the software development process
- Are you currently based in a location where Scribd, Inc. can employ you?
- Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities. This includes surrounding metro areas or locations within a typical commuting distance: United States: Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Dallas | Denver | Chicago | Houston | Jacksonville | Los Angeles | Miami | New York City | Phoenix | Portland | Sacramento | Salt Lake City | San Diego | San Francisco | Seattle | Washington D.C. Canada: Ottawa | Toronto | Vancouver Mexico: Mexico City
- Experience improving app reliability, load performance, or crash metrics in large-scale Android apps
- Exposure to Firebase or similar authentication frameworks, and subscription-oriented flows
- Proficiency applying agentic / AI coding tools to Android development is a big plus
Benefits
- Scribd 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
- Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities
- Wellness and home office stipends
- Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products
- Enterprise access to leading AI tools
- Competitive equity ownership
- Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd, Inc. employees, regardless of location.
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