Scribd is a technology company based in San Francisco. We're rapidly changing the publishing industry and we're looking for talented technologists to help us. It's not a normal job, but we think it's pretty awesome anyway.
Scribd's vision is to build the world's digital library. Scribd's product is used today to publish and discover written works of all kinds: everything from books and short stories to powerpoints about programming languages and Ph.D. theses. Scribd is profitable and is one of the largest sites on the web, but the journey is only 1% finished. We are still a very small team and we're looking for excellent product and engineering minds to take us to the next level.
There is a lot of deep technology operating behind the scenes at Scribd. We have scaled the world's second largest Ruby on Rails site, invented the first HTML5 document reader, and done original work on textual analysis.
To understand Scribd's unique culture, imagine mixing go karts and quadricopters with free food and company ski trips. Or just watch this video tour, courtesy of TechCrunch.
Find out more about what we do:
Scribd Tech Blog
Scribd on Github
Join our growing Product & Design team to improve existing web and mobile products and build new ones!
Scribd is a YCombinator startup based in San Francisco looking for an outstanding visual and human interface designer to join our growing Product & Design team to improve existing web and mobile products and build new ones.
As a key member of a small and agile team you will work closely with the product managers, UX designers, and engineers to iterate on and refine designs during ideation, iteration, and as they are developed for production. You will also work closely with the Lead Visual Designer to create compelling visual materials. Because we have a large user-base and deploy new production almost daily your work will be seen and used by millions of people.
Scribd has a unique company culture that combines a fun-loving atmosphere with a phenomenal and creative team work environment. That said, the coolest stuff that we’re doing we haven’t yet announced, so you’ll need to talk to us to find out what we’re up to.
Who You Are
You’re an independent and original creative professional. You enjoy being part of an innovative and team oriented environment where you get to work with product-focused teams. You enjoy collaboration and appreciate the exchange of ideas and concepts.
You are passionate about software products and obsess over their usability, and with improving people’s interaction with these. You have extreme attention to detail and are meticulous about how you communicate and document your designs.
You care deeply about your work and how it will impact millions of users daily. Your work ethic is exemplary.
What You'll Do:
You have:
Other nice to haves:
Please submit your portfolio when you apply.
To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - UI Designer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.
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Are you an experienced full-stack web developer (in rails or otherwise)? Come work on the #2 rails site on the web.
The Job
Are you an experienced full-stack web developer (whether with rails or not)? You've come to the right place. Scribd has built the 2nd largest Rails site on the web (by traffic), and we'd love for you to help us take it to the next level. No prior rails experience required.
Scribd has a flat engineering structure without sharply defined roles. No matter whether you gravitate towards the front-end, the back-end or somewhere in between, we're likely working on projects that are in your sweet spot. Scribd is built in rails, but if your experience is in another web framework, we find that transfers over quickly.
Who you are
The ideal profile combines a strong overall computer science background with deep experience in full-stack web development. You're equally at home writing complex SQL queries, architecting scalable Rails services, and building beautiful Javascript-heavy HTML5 applications. You've demonstrated your abilities writing top-quality web or open source software. You have a strong product sense and excellent technical judgement.
Qualifications
Great product sense and design sense; excellent technical judgement and architecture experience
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Desired
Expert knowledge of rails and ruby
To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Senior Rails Engineer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.
Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!
Do ops at a top 100 site, in a startup environment, from anywhere in the world
The Job
Scribd is a top 100 site on the web and one of the very largest sites built using ruby on rails. As one of the first rails sites to reach scale, we've built a lot of infrastructure and solved a lot of challenges to get Scribd to where it is today. We actively try to push the envelope and have contributed substantial work back to the open source community.
Scribd has an agile, startup culture and an unusually close working relationship between engineering and ops. You'll regularly find cross-over work at Scribd, with ops people writing application-layer code and engineers figuring out operations-level problems. We think we're able to make that work because of the uniquely talented people we have on the team.
To allow us to keep scaling, we're now looking to add an experienced operations professional to the team. As a member of Scribd operations, you'll have tremendous ownership and responsibility for one of the web's most popular applications. Because Scribd is a startup, you will wear many hats and have broader responsibility than you would at a larger company.
This role is open to remote employees working from anywhere in the world. Let us know when you apply if you want to work remotely.
What you'll do
You should have
Bonus points for ...
To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Operations Engineer (SF or remote) - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.
Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!
Build the future of mobile reading
The Job
Have a passion for mobile development on iOS and want to join a small team where you can play a pivotal role in an app used by millions? You may have just found a perfect opportunity.
Scribd is already one of the largest applications on the web, and now we are making an aggressive push into mobile. We have apps for iPhone and iPad in the app store, but they are only the first step in a much larger vision we are working to achieve.
Scribd's vision is to be the world's digital library, and we want to make our library the most comprehensive, accessible, and fun to use store of knowledge for every device. To do that, we need to make an amazing reader for all kinds of written content, get offline & syncing exactly right, and build a content discovery experience that always find you something you actually want to read.
You can check out what we've built so far at the link below. We have millions of users already but only a tiny team supporting both an iPhone and iPad app. We're going to need more help to get to our vision.
Scribd iOS app on the App Store
You should have
Even better
To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - iOS Developer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.
Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!
Be the primary developer of a widely used Android app
The Job
Have a passion for mobile development on Android and want to join a small team where you can play a pivotal role in an app used by millions? You may have just found a perfect opportunity.
Scribd is already one of the largest applications on the web, and now we are making an aggressive push into mobile. We have apps for Android phones in the app store, but they are only the first step in a much larger vision we are working to achieve.
Scribd's vision is to be the world's digital library, and we want to make our library the most comprehensive, accessible, and fun to use store of knowledge for every device. To do that, we need to make an amazing reading experience for all kinds of written content, get offline & syncing exactly right, and build a content discovery experience that always find you something you actually want to read. Some of the immediate projects we're working on now include: building a tablet version of the Android app, integrating social features from the website, and designing a new PDF reader from scratch.
You can check out what we've built so far at the link below. We have millions of users already but only a tiny team supporting Android apps for every device. We're going to need more help to get to our vision.
Scribd Android app on Google Play
You should have
Even better
To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Android Developer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.
Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!
Scribd is a YCombinator startup based in San Francisco looking for a Technical Support Representative to help Scribd's users over the web and email with any issue whether it is for a simple password reset or complex publishing advice. We're looking for an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, tech-minded person to join our Customer Support team and help us deliver top-notch service. We want to make the experience for our customers the most enjoyable and enticing possible, while building on our business model. If you're excited by this challenge, we want you.
Scribd’s vision is to build the future of reading and publishing by making it easy to share and discover entertaining, informative and engaging written content across the web and mobile devices. Notably, we're already one of the top 100 sites on the web with over 90 million monthly visitors. From a technology perspective we have scaled the world's third largest ruby on rails site, invented the first HTML5 document reader, and done original work on textual analysis.
We’ve won lots of awards, raised $20M along the way and we're at the threshold of some breakthrough launches, but the journey is only 1% finished, and we’re looking for best breed of folks to take Scribd to the next level.
Who you are and what you'll do:
We're looking for an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, tech-minded person to join our Technical Support team.
You have:
You’ll make us even happier if you bring:
To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Technical Support Representative - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.
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We're looking for great hackers of all stripes
The Job
Scribd has built the #2 largest Rails site on the web (by traffic), and we'd love for you to help us take it to the next level.
We have a flat engineering structure without strictly defined roles. There are ongoing projects in areas from web UI's to new mobile apps to hard machine learning problems. We use a variety of technologies, including ruby/rails, Javascript, iOS, Java, and C. Whether you're an expert with these now or looking to learn, if you can build software well we'd like to meet you.
Who you are
We are looking for people with strong general engineering backgrounds and a lot of passion for developing software. Experience building web or mobile applications (in any language) is a plus. A good product sense, an understanding of the web 2.0 ecosystem, and strong personal initiative are essential.
Whether you gravitate towards front-end or back-end development (or both), we have exciting projects in all areas of web and mobile development.
You should have
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Even better
To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Software Engineer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.
Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!
Want to know what it's like to work at a startup? Look no further.
Want to see what it's like to work at a startup in Silicon Valley? If you are a CS student now, you can experience it first-hand with an internship at Scribd.
Scribd hires top undergraduate and graduate students for internships year-round. Most internships are in the summer, but if your school has a co-op program, we'll work with 3 or 6 month programs during the academic term as well.
Our philosophy around internship programs is that you will learn the most being put on real projects, working side by side full-time engineers. As an intern at Scribd, we will treat you like a full-time employee for the duration of the time. The software you write will ship to millions of users, and you will come away knowing what it's like to work a top technology startup.
Scribd interns will usually work with Ruby/Rails, iOS, or Android during their summer. We'll work with you to find the area you'll best fit in.
We provide a paid housing stipend, travel arrangements, and a generous salary. You'll also be included in company fun: in past summers we have done theme parks, sailing trips, and indoor skydiving.
Qualifications
Applying
Please include the following with your application:
To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Intern - Software Engineering - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.
Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!
Scribd is a YCombinator startup based in San Francisco looking for a product manager to lead the agile ideation, discovery, development, and launch of product initiatives to constantly make the product better. We want to make the experience for our customers the most enjoyable and enticing possible, while building on our disruptive business model. If you're excited by this challenge, we want you.
Scribd’s vision is to build the future of reading and publishing by making it easy to share and discover entertaining, informative and engaging written content across the web and mobile devices. Notably, we're already one of the top 100 sites on the web with over 90 million monthly visitors. We have scaled the world's third largest ruby on rails site, invented the first HTML5 document reader, and done original work on textual analysis. We’ve won lots of awards, raised $20M along the way and we're at the threshold of some breakthrough launches, but the journey is only 1% finished, and we’re looking for best of breed Product folks to take Scribd to the next level.
As a Scribd Product Manager, you'll work closely with the design and engineering teams on a daily basis iterating on and refining on the product to provide our users with the ultimate experience possible with these ground-breaking products. And, because we have a large user-base and deploy new production almost daily your work will be seen and used by millions of people immediately. You will receive instant feedback and ample data to analyze your work and keep iterating.
Scribd has a unique company culture that combines a fun-loving atmosphere with a phenomenal team work environment. That said, the coolest stuff that we’re doing we haven’t yet announced, so you’ll need to talk to us to find out what we’re up to.
Who you are:
You have a deeply ingrained passion for bringing forth compelling products and creating value for your customers. You combine this with an instinct for superior user experience, technical aptitude to work with creative fast-moving design and engineering teams, and the business sense to define product goals and strategies.
You either have some formal PM experience, or have held the de-facto PM role as co-founder of a consumer focused startup, or other. But whatever your title, you should have proven your ability to create awesome products by having a leadership role in one before. And you should be the kind of person who can take a look at Scribd and immediately start pointing out all the things that you would fix.
To be successful in this role, you will have visionary product insight, considerable technical expertise, and broad leadership and business skills. Above all, you are a really smart individual who knows how to get things done.
What you’ll do:
You will own user experience and envision and bring to life new product initiatives for Scribd’s products:
You have:
You’ll make us even happier if you bring:
To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Product Manager - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.
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Scribd is an equal opportunity employer.
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