Software Engineer II

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, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.

Location:

New York, NY

Condé Nast stands as a distinguished media powerhouse, celebrated for curating top-tier content for the globe's most impactful audiences. Engaging over a billion consumers through its cutting‑edge print, digital, and video brands, the portfolio proudly features some of the most iconic titles in the media landscape, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and WIRED.

Condé Nast Technology builds the products, systems, and experiences that power our brands. Our mission is to enable creativity and business growth through next‑generation publishing, loyalty, and commerce platforms. We’re a global team of designers, engineers, product managers, and researchers dedicated to creating innovative, user‑centric products that enable world‑class storytelling and digital experiences.

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.

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 / SE2:
Full Stack to elevate the visual and interactive qualities of our consumer facing experiences across our portfolio of brands. This role focuses on craft lding 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.

You’ll collaborate closely with our Product Design Lead, editorial partners, and platform engineers to bridge design intent with production‑quality code.

• Elevate Front End architecture
  • Build polished, high quality UI elements as React components with a strong focus on layout, typography and interactive fidelity.
  • Inform Design, Product and Editorial teams on engineering rationale. Be ready to defend your work, provide milestones on your progress and communicate your intentions to a group of peers.
  • Utilize modern React and Typescript features. Familiarity with React 18+, Type Script, 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.
  • Shape 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.
  • Mentor through example, helping teammates build their craft and front‑end intuition.
  • Use AI‑assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate discovery, prototyping, testing, documentation,…