Software Engineer II - Experimentation

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:

London, GB

Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. Our award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.

We are headquartered in London and New York, and operate in 31 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local licence partners across the globe.

The Role

The Experimentation team is seeking a strong, experienced engineer who will play a crucial role in designing, and implementing, Condé Nast’s experimentation platform that empowers our product teams to conduct a variety of tests to improve our user experiences. We’re looking for someone who has a proven track record of shipping products with reliable, maintainable code with a focus on both front-end components and large-scale backend services.

The Team

• The People. We are a team of engineers who are passionate about the code we write.We love to learn and likewise want to teach and challenge each other to become better engineers

• The Work. We believe that our job begins when our content is created all the way to where we recommend it using various experimentation tools. You will at times touch vastly complex components that drive most of the systems of Conde Nast.

• The Code. We are strong believers in “the right tool for the right job.” Our main technologies include Java, Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t open to other technologies.

What will you be doing?

• Designing, implementing, and documenting front-end components and backend APIs 

•  Leading projects from ideation to execution to maintenance

•  Teaching and mentoring other engineers, both internal and external to the team

• Collaborating with your team on new ideas or improving existing ones

• Being included in the on-call rotation for production support

• Helping us grow our engineering team

Who you are: 

• Knowledge of vanilla JavaScript and React.js, good understanding of ES9 and Node.js and JavaScript testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha etc.), Java

• Experience working with, designing and deploying GraphQL and RESTful APIs

• Effective fluency with front-end technologies such as fundamental HTML, CSS and OOP CSS (i.e. Sass, Less)

•  Strong sense of building products for other engineers and experience building platforms for other teams

•  Has seen projects from ideation through execution and maintenance

• Experience mentoring engineers

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

What benefits do we offer? 

•  Condé Nast Learning Hub where you’ll find you’ll find all Condé Nast-developed learning courses and trainings, and over 16,000+ courses in seven local languages 

• 25 days holiday and extra days of annual leave for if you get married, move house or want to volunteer 

• Hybrid working and core hours 

• Competitive pension scheme 

• Bupa Private Healthcare 

• Season ticket loans 

• Cycle to work 

• Employee Assistance programme 

• Bring your dog to work 

• A wide variety of wellness benefits including gym discounts 

• Discounts and Magazine Subscriptions

• Employee Resource Groups to provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives, exchange ideas, and work on community priorities for our global workforce  

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.