Hybrid Senior Android Engineer

at Scribd

• Job title: Senior Android Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $146,000 - $227,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Android, Firebase, Kotlin
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Senior Android Engineer developing high-quality Android experiences for Fable app, collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving technical direction.

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 significant 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.
• Experience improving app reliability, load performance, or crash metrics in large-scale Android apps is a plus.
• Exposure to Firebase or similar authentication frameworks, and subscription-oriented flows is a plus.
• Proficiency applying agentic / AI coding tools to Android development is a big plus.

Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Short-term/long-term disability plans
• 401k/RSP matching
• Onboarding stipend for home office peripherals + accessories
• Learning & Development allowance
• Learning & Development programs
• Quarterly stipend for Wellness, WiFi, etc.
• Mental Health support & resources
• Free subscription to the Scribd Inc. suite of products
• Referral Bonuses
• Book Benefit
• Sabbaticals
• Company-wide events
• Team engagement budgets
• Vacation & Personal Days
• Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
• Flexible Sick Time
• Volunteer Day
• Company-wide Employee Resource Groups and programs that foster an inclusive and diverse workplace.
• Access to AI Tools: We provide free access to best-in-class AI tools, empowering you to boost productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate bold innovation.