Scribd: Senior Software Engineer at Scribd

Location: San Francisco, Ca
URL: http://www.scribd.com

The Job

Scribd is one of the largest applications on the web, and we have a small but terrific team working on making it better. Being a software engineer at Scribd is an opportunity to have a large impact on a product used by millions.

Some of the interesting components we've written are: our own search engine library to search the largest single text corpus on the internet; a fuzzy text-matching system that can identify similar blocks of text; an API that's depended on by thousands of businesses; and a document conversion system that runs on a dynamically scalable grid of over 1,000 Amazon EC2 nodes.

Scribd has a flat engineering structure that gives individuals a great deal of responsibility. As a full-stack developer at Scribd, you will be involved in all stages of developing the product you are working on. You'll c! reate new product ideas and help guide the product roadmap, spec out what the next generation will look like, and implement it yourself. Because of this, we look for individuals who thrive in a less structured environment where they will work creatively and take initiative.

About Scribd

Scribd is a YCombinator startup based in San Francisco. Our vision is to build the future of publishing, and we're already one of the top 100 sites on the web with over 90 million monthly visitors. We've won lots of awards and raised 20M along the way, but the journey is only 1% finished, and we're looking for talented technologists of all kinds to take Scribd 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. Scribd is a very engineering-driven company: as an engineer here you will have a lot of responsibility to choose the projects you work on and to define the way they get built. And because we have a large userbase and deploy new code daily, your work will likely be used by millions of people on your first week. 

Scribd has a unique company culture that combines a laid-back atmosphere (we have company go-karts and an office zipline) with a total focus on doing great engineering - the best way to experience it is really to read through our jobs page and watch our infamous go-kart racing video. For more info on our technology, check out our tech blog and this ar! ticle about our break-through HTML5 technology. 

Recently we launched our first mobile application, called Float, for web and iOS. Float is more than just an app, though; it is a digital reading service that aims to bring all of your favorite reading sources into one platform. We're combining news articles, blog posts, books, and more into one integrated reading experience that works across all devices. For more info, check out some of the great coverage we've had about Float, or try it out yourself at float.com.