Software Engineer, Aviator
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Overview:
Come join our team to become part of the first major media company to establish a permanent presence in Austin!
The Digital Strategy and Initiative’s Aviator team is seeking a strong engineer to help continue building the next generation of digital products across multiple Condé Nast brands including Allure, Golf Digest, W, GQ, Vanity Fair, Self, Glamour, Architectural Digest, and Teen Vogue to name a few . We’re looking for someone that has a proven track record of shipping products with reliable, maintainable code, and who wants to apply their engineering talent to creating new and innovative experiences.
We’ve been launching our sites on Copilot, our in-house service-oriented content platform. Our tech stack is Node.js on the server with React views. We’ve been building out a shared React component library and other platform capabilities that we are leveraging across all our sites. All engineers contribute to the platform. We believe strongly in an open code philosophy and strong attention to quality and learning with pull requests for all code and constructive feedback.
Aviator is a department within Digital Strategy and Initiatives consisting of product, design and engineering teams. The group has responsibility across multiple Condé Nast brands while also driving a digital roadmap of product and feature development which can benefit the entire company.
Why come work with us?
The People: Our team of engineers, analytics managers, product leaders, designers, and digital strategists are passionate about the products we create and the code we write. It is routine to catch us debating about interesting new digital products, the latest trends in technology, attending meetups and seminars. We love to learn, and likewise want to teach and challenge each other to become better thinkers and doers.
The Brands & Data: With over 20 iconic brands like WIRED, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The New Yorker, etc, in our portfolio we see how 80+ million monthly users interact with a host of digital properties. This gives us a unique and powerful view into the rapidly changing world of how people consume content online.
The Culture: We are committed to our users and our work, but we know we work best when we are relaxed and comfortable. We have snacks, cold brew, a pool table, and lots of fun. At least every month there is an event for all of the digital teams. We like to get to know one another and create things.
The Opportunity: Be one of the first Austin employees and help us shape our culture.
What are we looking for?
- Intermediate to expert level fluency in at least 1 programing language and while it’s a plus if one of those is JavaScript, it’s not required. However you must be willing to learn JavaScript, if you don’t know it already.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Experience with web application and front-end performance tuning.
- Experience with using and/or contributing to FOSS.
- Eager to learn about new technologies and implementing these ideas in a production environment.
What would you be responsible for?
- Building features for multiple Condé Nast brands.
- Contributing to our core platform of common components.
- Creating new components that other engineers can use.
- Teaching and mentoring other engineers.
- Collaborating with your team on new ideas or improving existing ones.
- Being included in the on-call rotation for production support. We believe you own what you build.
About Digital Strategy & Initiatives:
The Digital Strategy & Initiatives Team at Condé Nast is a multidisciplinary group of designers, strategists, researchers, product managers and engineers dedicated to creating and building innovative, user-centric solutions. Focused on crafting transformative experiences for existing and emerging products, the DS&I team shapes and drives the digital strategy across Condé’s portfolio of brands.
About Condé Nast:
Condé Nast is a premier media company renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world's most influential audiences. Attracting more than 100 million consumers across its industry-leading print, digital and video brands, the company’s portfolio includes some of the most iconic titles in media: Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Brides, Self, GQ, GQ Style, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Wired, W, Golf Digest, Golf World, Teen Vogue, Ars Technica, The Scene, Pitchfork and Backchannel. The company’s newest division, Condé Nast Entertainment, was launched in 2011 to develop film, television and premium digital video programming.
For more information, please visit condenast.com and follow @CondeNast and @CondeNastCareer for Twitter and @condenastcareers for Instagram
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