Senior Android Engineer (Fable Core)

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About the team and role:

As a Senior Android Engineer on the Fable team youll 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. Fable is a top 5 app in the Books category of the App Store with a growing vibrant community.

Youll play a lead role in developing Fable for Android planning and developing features across all parts of the app. As Fables lead Android engineer youll drive the architectural roadmap planning and executing on performance and stability enhancements.

We value ownership of the product from end to end bringing creativity and energy to building great experiences for the Fable community and delighting our users with both aesthetics and utility. We are looking for engineers who share these values.

We believe the best mobile experiences come from teams who care deeply about the people they build for and each other.

About the Role:

• 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 apps architecture and performance.

• Contribute to technical direction helping evolve Fables 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.

Were excited about you because:

• 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.

• Youre keen to apply AI coding tools to increase development velocity and automate various parts of the software development process.

Its a plus if you also 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.

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In the state of California the reasonably expected salary range is between $151000 minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California to $226000 maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California.

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• 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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