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Salary: USD 124,000 - 221,500 / annual
Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to join the Growth Retention & Monetization team. You will be the iOS technical owner for the Everand and Scribd apps, leading the development of subscription, paywall, and retention features that directly drive revenue and user engagement.
Everand is a Netflix-like platform providing access to over 7 million titles including ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, and magazines for 2 million subscribers. Scribd offers access to over 100 million user-uploaded documents. The Retention & Monetization team owns the entire subscription lifecycle: paywalls, in-app purchases, plan changes, cancellation flows, and A/B experiments that maximize long-term user value.
In this role, you will:
- Build and own in-app purchase flows using StoreKit and StoreKit 2
- Ship A/B experiments and drive product decisions through experimentation
- Partner with backend, web, and Android engineers on shared subscription systems
- Improve app stability and pay down technical debt without slowing delivery
- Mentor engineers on your team and set technical direction for major initiatives
- Communicate cross-functionally with product, design, and business stakeholders to align on goals and tradeoffs
Scribd, Inc. operates under a "Scribd Flex" model that balances individual flexibility with intentional in-person collaboration. Occasional in-person attendance is required regardless of location. The company culture emphasizes GRIT: setting and achieving Goals, delivering Results, contributing Innovative ideas, and strengthening the Team through collaboration.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of experience shipping iOS apps to the public, including consumer apps at scale
- Strong proficiency in Swift with deep experience in SwiftUI and UIKit
- Comfort working in mature codebases that include Objective-C
- Experience building in-app purchase or subscription features with StoreKit and knowledge of App Store rules
- Experience designing, building, and consuming APIs (REST, GraphQL preferred)
- Track record of addressing technical debt and migrating code to newer technologies without slowing delivery
- Excellent communication skills and ability to lead technical initiatives collaboratively
Technical Skills:
- Primary: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit
- Secondary: Objective-C
- Payments: StoreKit and StoreKit 2, App Store subscriptions
- Testing: XCTest, XCUITest or similar
- API Integration: RESTful APIs, JSON, GraphQL
- Tooling: Xcode, Git, iOS CI/CD
Nice to Have:
- Experience with subscription systems, payments, or retention features (paywalls, trials, cancellation flows, win-back)
- Experience with experimentation platforms like Statsig
- Familiarity with web technologies (JavaScript, JSON, REST) or backend frameworks (Ruby on Rails)
- Exposure to Auth0 or similar authentication frameworks
- Interest in cross-platform collaboration with Android and web teams
