Software Engineer 1

Condé Nast is one of the worlds most renowned media publishing companies creating and distributing every type of media today spanning print and digital publishing in all formats. With a portfolio of some of todays most influential brands the company continues to grow its audience through a global operational and content infrastructure across its 12 owned and operated markets. Headquartered in New York City the companys owned and operated markets include China France Germany India Italy Japan Mexico & Latin America Spain Taiwan UAE/Dubai the U.K. and the U.S. with additional local license partners in over twenty additional markets across the globe. Lead brands include Vogue The New Yorker GQ Architectural Digest Condé Nast Traveler Vanity Fair Wired Allure Ars Technica Bon Appétit House & Garden Pitchfork Tatler and Vogue Business.

Location:

Bengaluru KA

About Our Engineering Team:

Our engineering team builds and evolves Verso the shared front-end platform powering more than 70 Condé Nast brand sites worldwide. We specialize in modern React architectures performance-optimized experiences multi-brand configuration systems and flexible storytelling tools that enable teams to move fast while maintaining exceptional quality.

We value craft. We value clarity. We value performance. We value governance. We believe that exceptional digital experiences require engineering product and design working in lockstep.

About the role:
Our brands are our USP. The expression of our iconic brands from Vogue to the New Yorker within their digital experiences is of utmost importance in our mission to create the best places to consume and interact with our brands.

We are hiring a Front End Software Engineer / SE1: Full stack to elevate the visual and interactive qualities of our consumer facing experiences across our portfolio of brands.

This role focuses on craft at scale. Building and implementing user interfaces that feel premium deliberate and performant. You will work at the intersection of brand expression system architecture and user experience bringing finesse to interfaces that millions of readers interact with every day.

Youll collaborate closely with our Product Design Lead editorial partners and platform engineers to bridge design intent with production-quality code.

Key Responsibilities & Areas of Impact::

• Elevate Front End architecture

  • Build polished high quality UI elements as React components with a strong focus on layout typography and interactive fidelity.

  • Communicate implementation decisions clearly during code reviews and team discussions and explain tradeoffs when appropriate.

  • Utilize modern React and Typescript features. Familiarity with React 18 TypeScript hooks suspense SSR concepts and emerging RSC patterns are expected.

  • You write reusable semantic code. You need to be able to defend your rationale during peer reviews. Your code should be written with long-term scalability in mind.

  • Work with GraphQL schemas fragments and resolvers to deliver efficient minimal data payloads.

  • Work with GQL patterns that support component-driven design and editorial storytelling flows.

  • Design with Core Web Vitals in mind continuously improving LCP CLS INP and client-side performance.

  • Ensure accessibility semantic HTML responsive behaviors and robust interaction patterns across devices and markets.

  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate discovery prototyping testing documentation and implementation while maintaining ownership of code quality security accessibility and performance.

  • Critically evaluate AI-generated code and recommendations validating correctness through tests peer review observability and sound engineering judgment.

  • Identify pragmatic opportunities to use AI to improve publishing workflows developer experience content operations or front-end platform efficiency in partnership with Product Design Editorial and Data teams.

  • Contribute to responsible AI practices including appropriate handling of confidential data copyright-sensitive content bias attribution human review and brand/editorial integrity.

• Contribute to our Multi-Tenant Application

  • Contribute to our re-use in our design system. Extend and refine shared component libraries to support brand-distinctive layouts without sacrificing consistency.

  • Contribute to configuration-driven approaches that allow brands to express themselves while remaining maintainable at scale.

  • Your code should be written in a way that helps enable rapid enablement. You approach problems with a pragmatic perspective and find solutions during the discovery phase that allows for rapid enablement.

  • Participate in design reviews architectural discussions and platform strategy.

  • Follow established engineering standards for code quality accessibility and performance..

What Were Looking For (Experience & Skills)

• 2 years of experience developing high-quality front-end experiences using React and TypeScript.

• Strong understanding with GraphQL including fragments schemas and component-oriented queries.

• Solid understanding of modern React (hooks suspense SSR/Hydration RSC concepts).

• Strong CSS fundamentals (layout systems responsive design animation typography).

• Strong understanding of accessibility usability and inclusive design principles.

• Experience optimizing Core Web Vitals and reducing real-world runtime costs.

• Curious mindset with a desire to learn iterate and push the platform forward.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as coding assistants chat-based technical copilots or AI-supported documentation/search workflows.

• Ability to prompt critique test and refine AI-generated outputs rather than accepting them unreviewed.

• Awareness of responsible AI considerations including privacy security intellectual property accessibility bias and editorial trust.

• Curiosity about AI-enabled product experiences and how they can support publishing storytelling personalization discovery or internal tooling.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating AI-powered features into web applications such as streaming responses prompt-driven interfaces semantic search recommendations summarization or editorial assistance tools.

• Familiarity with LLM APIs embeddings RAG patterns evaluation workflows or AI observability.

• Experience designing user interfaces for AI-assisted workflows with clear feedback confidence cues human-in-the-loop review and graceful failure states.

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.