Senior Fullstack Engineer — Rails to Next.js & AI Features

Scribd, Inc.; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scribd Flex

Health benefits

Parental leave

Retirement match

Learning programs

Wellness stipend

Product access

Equity

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is shaping the core reading experience for 10M+ daily readers, building tools that help users explore and synthesize large document collections with AI-powered features.

This role focuses on migrating from a Ruby-on-Rails monolith to a modular microfrontend stack using Next.js, collaborating with product, design, AI/ML and infrastructure teams to deliver fast, accessible, and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of full-stack development experience using Ruby on Rails and React.
• Familiar with maintaining services in a cloud environment and monitoring health.
• Strong focus on performance, accessibility, and SEO.
• Collaborative mindset across Design, Product, AI/ML, and Infrastructure.
• Commitment to writing clean, well-documented, extensible code.

Responsibilities

• Migrate frontend surfaces from a Ruby-on-Rails monolith to a microfrontend
• Collaborate with Data/ML and Content Pipeline teams to build new features
• Create new GraphQL APIs
• Build new services in Node, Python, Go
• Collaborate with Design and PM
• Contribute to a shared design system
• Improve frontend infrastructure

Skills

Full-stack dev

React

Next.js

Ruby on Rails

SEO awareness

Cloud services

Tools

GraphQL

Node.js

Python

Go

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is shaping the core reading experience for 10M+ daily readers, building tools that help users explore and synthesize large document collections with AI-powered features.

This role focuses on migrating from a Ruby-on-Rails monolith to a modular microfrontend stack using Next.js, collaborating with product, design, AI/ML and infrastructure teams to deliver fast, accessible, and scalable solutions.