Responsibilities
- Your main focus will be to design and build high-quality Android experiences.
- Collaborate with product, design, QE, and engineers to deliver features that are performant, intuitive, and visually polished.
- Strengthen the app’s architecture and performance.
- Contribute to technical direction, helping evolve Fable’s Android foundations and development best practices.
- Partner with other engineers to improve code quality, test coverage, and release reliability.
- Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and design discussions to help the team grow and move cohesively.
- Champion a user-first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the experience.
Requirements
- You bring 5+ years of experience in Android development with a strong track record of building and shipping high-quality consumer apps at scale.
- You write clean, maintainable Kotlin code and have deep experience with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flows, and modern Android architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI.
- You have a keen eye for usability, accessibility, and performance, and care about the craft of building intuitive, beautiful interfaces.
- You thrive in cross-functional collaboration, communicating early and often with product, design, and QA partners to align on goals and tradeoffs.
- You take ownership from concept to release and value long-term thinking over short-term fixes.
- You enjoy mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and helping the team move as a cohesive unit.
- You care deeply about the users; understanding what makes Fable impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the features you build.
- You’re keen to apply AI coding tools to increase development velocity, and automate various parts of the software development process.
Nice to Have
- Experience improving app reliability, load performance, or crash metrics in large-scale Android apps.
- Exposure to Firebase or similar authentication frameworks, and subscription-oriented flows.
- Proficiency applying agentic / AI coding tools to Android development is a big plus.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — United States: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C., Canada: Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico: Mexico City
Benefits at Scribd, Inc.
- Scribd Flex (flexible work model) - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage - Mental health support and disability coverage - Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals - Paid parental leave and family support benefits - Retirement matching and employee equity - Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities - Wellness and home office stipends - Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products - Enterprise access to leading AI tools
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Additional Information
- Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd, Inc. employees, regardless of location.
- Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the listed cities, including surrounding metro areas or locations within a typical commuting distance.
