Software Engineer (Backend), Content Foundations

About the Team & Role

The Content Foundations team builds the systems that power how content is uploaded, processed, and delivered across Scribd products. This includes everything from ingestion, metadata extraction, early quality controls, and the core artifacts that power search, recommendations, AI/ML systems, and the reading and listening experience.

Why this role is interesting

You’ll be joining an experienced team working at the boundary between messy, real‑world content and highly structured systems, where file formats vary and metadata inconsistencies become amplified at scale. Your contributions will directly impact downstream teams and ultimately our customers.

Current focus areas include

• Improvements to upload flow
• Content quality and early‑stage validation
• OCR and content extraction for downstream ML/LLM use cases
• Evolving conte...