Engineering Manager, Condé Nast

• This is a hands-on leadership role. You should be as comfortable in a design review or a pull request as you are in a one-to-one or a performance conversation
• We do not expect any one person to necessarily arrive with all of this. If you meet most of what follows and are interested in the rest, we would like to hear from you
• Significant experience as a software engineer, with a track record of shipping and running production systems
• Proven line management experience, including career development, hiring and performance management
• Comfortable remaining hands-on. You still write and review production code, and you contribute credibly to technical discussions with engineers at every level
• Deep, current fluency in JavaScript
• Experience working with, designing and deploying production-grade RESTful APIs. Experience and knowledge of GraphQL APIs is a plus
• Have seen technical projects through the entire development lifecycle, from ideation through execution and maintenance
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and strong attention to design detail
• Excellent communication skills, including being comfortable explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• A track record of mentoring and developing engineers, including people whose background or route into the industry may differ from your own
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and a considered view on how engineering teams should use them

Desirable

• Contribute directly to production code across back-end APIs and front-end components, and stay close enough to the detail to make credible technical decisions
• Set and own the technical direction for your team, including architecture, design patterns and engineering standards
• Lead projects from ideation through execution to maintenance
• Participate in design and code reviews, and raise the standard of both across the team
• Identify and resolve code, performance and usability issues
• Evaluate libraries and tools for integration into our platform, including AI tooling, and set standards for how the team uses it covering code quality, review, security and data handling
• Balance delivery against platform health, technical debt and long-term maintainability
• Line manage a team of engineers, owning their growth, performance and wellbeing through regular one-to-ones, clear expectations and honest feedback
• Coach engineers through career progression, including the difficult conversations, and support each person in doing their best work
• Build a team where people feel safe to ask questions, raise concerns, disagree with you and admit mistakes, and make space for quieter and newer voices in technical discussion
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding for your team, with attention to fair and consistent assessment
• Work closely with product and design partners on the creation and iteration products and features
• Own the delivery of your team's work, planning and prioritising alongside your product partner
• Keep stakeholders informed with clear communication about progress, risk and trade-offs
• Collaborate with the broader engineering group on new ideas and on improving existing ones

• End Date: September 30, 2026