Senior Android Engineer (Fable Core)
About the role
The Senior Android Engineer on the Fable team will help shape the future of reading, working on Fable, a successful app that helps people build a reading habit, find their next book, and connect with other readers.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 5+ years of experience in Android development with a strong track record of building and shipping high-quality consumer apps at scale.
- Write clean, maintainable Kotlin code and have deep experience with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flows, and modern Android architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI.
- Have a keen eye for usability, accessibility, and performance, and care about the craft of building intuitive, beautiful interfaces.
- Thrive in cross-functional collaboration, communicating early and often with product, design, and QA partners to align on goals and tradeoffs.
- Take ownership from concept to release and value long-term thinking over short-term fixes.
- Enjoy mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and helping the team move as a cohesive unit.
- Care deeply about the users; understanding what makes Fable impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the features you build.
- Keen to apply AI coding tools to increase development velocity, and automate various parts of the software development process.
Qualifications
- 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.
Skills
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Knowledge of Android development lifecycle, including UI design, testing, and debugging.
- Experience with version control systems like Git.
- Understanding of cloud services and APIs.
Benefits
At Scribd, Inc., your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.
Pay
San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States. In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $151,000 [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California] to $226,000 [maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California]. In the United States, outside of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $124,000 [minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California] to $214,500 [maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California]. In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $157,000 CAD [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market] to $201,000 CAD[maximum salary in our highest geographic market].
Schedule
Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd, Inc. employees, regardless of location.