# Scribd - Senior SWE \(Identity\)

- Company: [Silver](<https://jobstar.asia/company/silver>)
- Location: Remote · Argentina
- Team: Engineering
- Employment type: Full Time
- Posted: July 20, 2026

## Job description

## **About the team and role**

Our team's mission at [Scribd](https://www.scribd.com) is to grow revenue and reduce costs through sophisticated, reliable, and secure authentication solutions. The Identity full-stack team works on projects that span Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Customer Support, and supports frontend and mobile teams via APIs. We have 200 million monthly visitors with more than 2 million active subscribers, and we receive several million login and sign-up requests a day. The team builds and maintains secure protocols that protect user credentials and data during authentication, while giving users a frictionless, seamless login and sign-up experience — and keeping our authentication methods compliant with relevant security standards, regulations, and industry best practices.

**Scope of this role:** This position begins on Customer Support / self-service initiatives (e.g., self-service account recovery and cancellation, reducing support load) and then transitions to core Identity roadmap projects (authentication, login & account-creation improvements, session management).

## **How we work with AI**

AI-powered development tools like Claude Code and Cursor are deeply integrated into our day-to-day engineering culture. We leverage these technologies for authoring code, troubleshooting complex bugs, and vetting architectural designs, and we look for engineers who do the same. However, accountability remains paramount: you are expected to fully own every line of code you deliver and must be able to articulate and justify your technical decisions. To evaluate this, our hiring process features a specific **AI Fluency** assessment where you will collaborate with an AI assistant in a live environment.

## **About you**

You're a determined, detail-oriented engineer who enjoys working with a team. You are confident yet humble about your skills and your ability to be a productive developer. You care about code review as both a chance to present your work and to learn from others. You own your work — you can explain and defend your designs and code without being prompted. You focus on long-term solutions, not just the quick fix, and you never skip testing. You are always learning and always working to improve your craft.

## **What you will do**

* Build self-service flows that reduce Customer Support load (e.g., account recovery, cancellation) and reduce friction across support tools & workflows (Zendesk, Forethought, Scribd Admin panels).
* Build and enhance identity-related functionality: authentication, session management, and user data protection.
* Improve login and account creation (e.g., passwordless / magic links / passkeys, One Tap), MFA, and identity verification.
* Integrate and optimize risk-based fraud detection and other security measures to mitigate threats.
* Design and implement user data retention and deletion workflows in compliance with regulations (e.g., GDPR).
* Implement projects with attention to quality, maintainability, performance, scale, and observability.
* Write clear technical documentation based on project proposals.
* Work closely with product, security, and legal teams on identity initiatives.

## **Requirements (must have)**

* 4–6 years of professional software development experience.
* Strong written communication skills (we are a remote-first company).
* Proficiency in Ruby on Rails; experience with JavaScript/React (≈1 year is sufficient — this is a backend-focused role with some frontend).
* API integration skills, with a focus on authentication.
* Experience working with relational databases at scale, and proficient with SQL.
* Experience with complex backend systems, including MFA, email verification, and risk-based fraud detection.
* Familiarity with version control (Git).
* Enthusiasm — teammates who are ready to build and improve the way we build.
* Participate in the Identity squad on-call program. The 24/7 on-call rotation is shared among engineers and occurs every three weeks, with one week of on-call duty per engineer. Historically on-call is uneventful — about one page a month.
* Good overlap with the EST timezone (09:00–13:00 EST).
* AI Fluency: Comfortable using AI tools to accelerate development — and able to explain, defend, and own everything you produce with AI assistance.

## **Nice to have**

* Security fundamentals — best practices for handling sensitive user data and transactions.
* Experience with Customer Support tools such as Zendesk and Forethought.
* Familiarity with CIAM, SSO, SAML, MFA, and federation concepts.

**Interview process**

* Silver Recruiter Screen
* Silver Technical Screen
* Client Technical Interview
* Client Database Modeling Interview
* Client AI adoption Interview
* Client Final Interview

## Apply

[Apply on Silver](<https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/silver/d2418f27-4019-4554-8bf2-88543f2f8ea9>)

Canonical job page: <https://jobstar.asia/job/scribd-senior-swe-identity-silver-argentina-07a7acf06efe2fa2>
