Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails/Python) - Content Foundations (Toronto)

About the Team & Role

The Content Foundations team builds the systems that power how content enters, evolves, and is delivered across Scribd. 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 a small and growing team working at the boundary between messy, real‑world content and highly structured systems, where file formats vary, metadata can be inconsistent, and scale amplifies every edge case.

Current Focus Areas

• Content quality and early‑stage validation
• Spam detection at upload time
• OCR and content extraction for ML/LLM use cases
• Evolving content formats to support downstream AI workflows
• Security hardening in partnership with Content and Infra‑Security
• Architectural improvements to how content and m...