Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core

Scribd, Inc.

Full-time Other-General
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Location
toronto, on, Canada
Posted
July 20, 2026

Job Description

Role Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Everand Core team , you’ll help shape the future of how people discover, organize, and enjoy books. You’ll own the backend platform that powers Everand's web and mobile experiences, driving rapid experimentation, discoverability, personalization, and consumption journeys. You’ll collaborate with engineers across search, recommendations, web, and mobile, as well as design and product partners, to align technical decisions with user needs and platform capabilities. You’ll build systems that drive performance, personalization, and reliability, and help shape the technical direction of our backend team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for the Everand backend: write and socialize design documents, drive architecture reviews, and translate product intent into concrete backend design.
  • Own backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queu...