Senior Frontend Engineer — Modernize UIs at Scale (Remote)

Scribd, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead modernization efforts, migrating legacy apps into a modern Microfrontend ecosystem while maintaining performance and developer experience. You will ship core frontend code, set reusable patterns, and collaborate across product and platform teams.

Post‑modernization, you’ll contribute to product features enabling publishers to upload documents and readers to access them, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and remote work culture.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional frontend software engineering experience.
• Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
• Hands-on experience with Next.js or similar modern web frameworks.
• Familiarity with Microfrontend architectures, monorepos, or shared frontend platforms.
• Strong understanding of web performance, bundling, and optimization techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; thrives in a remote, documentation-driven culture.

Responsibilities

• Migrate complex legacy web applications into a modern Microfrontend ecosystem with repeatable migration patterns.
• Ship production-critical frontend code and define patterns other teams can reuse.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to make architectural changes practical and durable.
• After modernization, build product features to support publishers uploading documents and readers consuming them.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Next.js

Microfrontend architectures

Monorepos

Web performance

Collaboration

Tools

Next.js

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead modernization efforts, migrating legacy apps into a modern Microfrontend ecosystem while maintaining performance and developer experience. You will ship core frontend code, set reusable patterns, and collaborate across product and platform teams.

Post‑modernization, you’ll contribute to product features enabling publishers to upload documents and readers to access them, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and remote work culture.