Software Engineer, Condé Nast
Commerce
$175-195k
Office located in World Trade Center, NY
Global media company
Open for applications
Global media company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$175-195k
Office located in World Trade Center, NY
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inform in new and compelling ways, creating beautiful, visually arresting moments that offer new perspectives, and new forms of self-expression.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years building production backend systems, ideally with some exposure to e-commerce, retail, or content-commerce platforms
- Deep proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript/JavaScript, with a track record of designing services that hold up under real user traffic, including seasonal or campaign-driven spikes
- Experience building and evolving REST and GraphQL APIs that serve both internal teams (editorial, styling, merchandising) and external partners (retail affiliates, payment providers, product data feeds)
- Comfort designing event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS, EventBridge) for things like inventory sync, price updates, order status, and affiliate commerce events
- Strong database design instincts across relational and NoSQL systems (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
- Experience designing systems with multi-tenancy or configurability in mind: building once and adapting across different use cases, teams, or brands, rather than one-off solutions
- Basic fluency in React, enough to collaborate closely with frontend engineers building shoppable articles, styling widgets, and product carousels
- Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design, applied pragmatically rather than academically
- Comfortable owning the full development lifecycle, from version control and code review to automated testing and CI/CD deployment
- A collaborative streak: you'll be pairing with product, editorial, and design stakeholders across multiple brands, each with its own voice and priorities
- AI-native mindset. Use AI tools as part of your everyday workflow, and look for opportunities to apply AI to solve real engineering and product problems, not just to write code faster
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of professional backend software development experience required
What the job involves
- Condé Nast's commerce team builds the technology behind product discovery, personalized shopping, and checkout experiences across our portfolio of brands
- We're looking for a Software Engineer III to help design and scale backend systems that power commerce initiatives, including styling and product recommendations, catalog, inventory, and order infrastructure, built to serve multiple brands, not just one
- You'll work closely with product managers and engineers across the org to build systems that are fast, reliable, and designed for reuse and scale across Condé Nast's diverse editorial and commerce properties
- As a backend engineer on Condé Nast's commerce team, you'll design and build services spanning multiple commerce initiatives, including product catalog and inventory systems, retail partner integrations, styling and recommendation features, and checkout infrastructure, with an eye toward reusability across our brands
- You'll work closely with product managers to translate business goals into technical designs, and with frontend and other backend engineers to ship features end to end
- You'll make architectural calls that balance speed of iteration with the reliability commerce demands, while thinking ahead about how a given system might need to flex for a different brand's catalog structure, traffic pattern, or editorial workflow
- You'll participate in code reviews and design discussions, and mentor other engineers to help raise the technical bar across the team
- Day to day, the specific project might shift: optimizing a product-matching query for styling recommendations one quarter, hardening a retail partner integration the next
- But the core of the work stays the same: partnering closely with product and engineering to build commerce systems that are reliable, well-designed, and scalable across Condé Nast's portfolio of brands
Our take
Condé Nast is a global media powerhouse, shaping culture through its iconic brands across print, digital, video, and social. These include Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Architectural Digest and they reach audiences in more than 32 markets worldwide - the company has expanded far beyond magazines too, into entertainment, experiences, and even education.
With the decline in printed media, Condé Nast has stayed ahead by redefining what it means to be a modern publishers. Today, far more people engage with its digital and social content than its print editions, adn the company has leaned into that shift by prioritising digital storytelling, building massive online communities, and moving several titles behind paywalls to replace shrinking print advertising revenue.
Now, as the company looks towards the future, it has doubled down on growth and innovation. In 2022, it created a dedicated strategy and corporate development role to uncover new opportunities, while heavily investing in its entertainment division. The result: a legacy media brand that's actively reinventing itself for the next era.
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Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Domestic Partner Benefit Extensions
- Free Mental Health Services
- Assistance in Refinancing Student Loans
- Long-term Remote Work Pilot
- Extended Bereavement leave
- Extended Parental Leave
- Added Adoption Financial Support
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Roger Lynch
(CEO)Previously served as President and CEO for Pandora, CEO for Sling TV, EVP of Advanced Technologies for DISH Network and EchoStar Corporation, and Chairman and CEO for Video Networks International LTD.
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