Software Engineer II

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others. Job Description

Location: Bengaluru, KA

The company is undertaking the biggest transformation in its history, driving towards expanding both its operations and its reach through diversifying the digital business models for our brands. Major areas of focus will include video and streaming platforms, increasing subscriptions and memberships, growing our events business, and ensuring we maintain a high level of standard on the products we are already proud of delivering to our customers. Migrating and consolidating to a more centralized set of technologies and capabilities that can be easily leveraged by any brand or product experience is also a top business priority.

Engineering is responsible for scaling, building, and deploying websites that serve over 500 million users globally. The global engineering team includes Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Core Engineering.

About Platform Engineering

Our mission is to build modern media platforms to serve our omnichannel experiences for our portfolio of global brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Glamour which currently reaches over 500 million, monthly users. We need your help to create new capabilities and strengthen our existing ones so that our brands can reach wider audiences through engaging digital experiences.

Quality, performance, experimentation, and speed of delivery are all principles at the heart of what we do as a Platform Engineering group. We have strong capabilities in areas such as editorial tooling, content delivery, design systems, advertising, and commerce that we will continue to improve and grow. Our vision is to additionally invest in areas such as video, subscriptions, membership, and next-generation editorial tools.

You will be working alongside international colleagues across the US, London, and India. We strongly emphasize cross-functional working by partnering directly with Product, Data, Design, UX, and Delivery.

About The Role

Condé Nast is looking for an experienced engineer to join and help us build the next generation of our content creation digital products. You will work closely with our product teams and help lead engineering teams in their shared mission to scale out and build our internal platform. These teams’ focus spans many types of products essential to editors, other engineers, and subscribers. Your work will drive the future of Condé Nast’s digital strategy in today’s publishing market and reach millions of readers around the world.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other disciplines (engineering, design, product) in the creation and iteration of web applications built to enable our editors to produce the best content they can

• Helping leading projects from ideation to execution to maintenance

• Collaborating with the broader engineering group on new ideas or improving existing ones

• Identify and improve code and usability performance issues

• Participate in design and code reviews

• Helping us grow and expand our engineering teams

About you

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Expert-level fluency in at least 1 programming language

Experience working with, designing, and deploying production-grade React/Ember applications

Experience working with and helping Design Systems

Familiarity and experience with designing, and deploying production-grade RESTful APIs, experience and knowledge of GraphQL APIs a must

Strong end-to-end testing experience and an emphasis on TDD methodologies

Eager to learn about new technologies and implement these ideas in a production environment

Our tech Languages and Frameworks: JavaScript, Node, React, Ember

Data: Mongo, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Kafka

Deployment: Docker, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions

Datadog, Splunk - for observing our platform

APIs: GraphQL, Apollo Federation, AWS AppSync

Source Control: Git, GitHub

How we work Pairing. We like knowledge sharing and upskilling

We work with engineers across time zones & locations

Infrastructure as Code everywhere

(Oncall - teams are responsible for their own apps)

Why Work With Us? We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits

We are a bunch of smart, passionate, diverse co-workers who love to teach and love to learn

We provide whatever hardware and software you need to be productive

A functional, well-disciplined product development organization

Big changes are happening in publishing and at Condé Nast, and this is a great time to be a part of it all!

What happens next? If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.