Conde Nast - Software Engineer II - Application Platform

Description :

Software Engineer (SE) - Application Platform

Cond Nast has a huge global footprint across 32 countries, with total monthly visitors reaching more than 550 million. We aim to inspire, inform, and entertain our audiences through our portfolio of well-known brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, GQ, and many other leading brands.

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.

The Role :

Cond 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 Cond Nasts digital strategy in todays 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 plus

- 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 Cond Nast, and this is a great time to be a part of it all!