SWE
US$70,000 – US$100,000 / yr base salary
Posted 20 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Scribd - Senior SWE (Identity)”
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- Expected experience
- 4–6 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$70,000 – US$100,000 / yr |
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About the team and role
Our team's mission at Scribd is to grow revenue and reduce costs through sophisticated, reliable, and secure authentication solutions. The Identity full-stack team works on projects that span Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Customer Support, and supports frontend and mobile teams via APIs. We have 200 million monthly visitors with more than 2 million active subscribers, and we receive several million login and sign-up requests a day. The team builds and maintains secure protocols that protect user credentials and data during authentication, while giving users a frictionless, seamless login and sign-up experience — and keeping our authentication methods compliant with relevant security standards, regulations, and industry best practices.
Scope of this role: This position begins on Customer Support / self-service initiatives (e.g., self-service account recovery and cancellation, reducing support load) and then transitions to core Identity roadmap projects (authentication, login & account-creation improvements, session management).
How we work with AI
AI-powered development tools like Claude Code and Cursor are deeply integrated into our day-to-day engineering culture. We leverage these technologies for authoring code, troubleshooting complex bugs, and vetting architectural designs, and we look for engineers who do the same. However, accountability remains paramount: you are expected to fully own every line of code you deliver and must be able to articulate and justify your technical decisions. To evaluate this, our hiring process features a specific AI Fluency assessment where you will collaborate with an AI assistant in a live environment.
About you
You're a determined, detail-oriented engineer who enjoys working with a team. You are confident yet humble about your skills and your ability to be a productive developer. You care about code review as both a chance to present your work and to learn from others. You own your work — you can explain and defend your designs and code without being prompted. You focus on long-term solutions, not just the quick fix, and you never skip testing. You are always learning and always working to improve your craft.
What you will do
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Build self-service flows that reduce Customer Support load (e.g., account recovery, cancellation) and reduce friction across support tools & workflows (Zendesk, Forethought, Scribd Admin panels).
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Build and enhance identity-related functionality: authentication, session management, and user data protection.