Software Engineer III

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:

Bengaluru, KAAbout Company: Condé Nast has a huge global footprint in 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 others.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 any brand or product experience can easily leverage 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.About The Role:We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer (SE-3) to join our team responsible for developing and optimizing high-traffic APIs and backend services. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure REST and GraphQL APIs. This role requires a self-starter with strong problem-solving skills, the ability to mentor junior engineers, and the drive to make a significant impact on our platform’s architecture and performance.Responsibilities:

• API Development & Optimization: Design, implement, and optimize REST and GraphQL APIs to handle large-scale traffic reliably and efficiently.
• Database Management: Manage and enhance database systems using MongoDB and ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, ensuring data integrity, optimized query performance, and scalability.
• Backend Development: Utilize Node.js for backend services, writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code. Knowledge of Java Spring Boot is a plus.
• Event-Driven Architecture: Experience with Kafka for event-streaming architectures is beneficial, enhancing our system’s real-time capabilities.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Develop unit and integration tests to maintain high code quality and ensure feature reliability. Participate in code reviews and enforce coding best practices.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable deployments.
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor junior developers, provide code reviews, and share best practices. Foster collaborative team culture and work closely with cross-functional teams (Product, QA, Operations).
• Architecture & Scalability: Contribute to architectural discussions and decisions to enhance the scalability, reliability, and maintainability of our systems.

Our tech:

• Languages and Frameworks: JavaScript, Node, React, Ember
• Data: Mongo, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka
• Deployment: Docker, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions 
• Datadog, Splunk -  for observing our platform
• APIs: GraphQL, Apollo Federation, AWS AppSync
• Source Control: Git, GitHub

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.