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With a portfolio of some of today's 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 company's 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. Job Description\nLocation:\nLondon, GBCondé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. The company's 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.\nThe company is headquartered in London and New York, and operates in 32 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local license partners across the globe. Condé Nast is focused on diversifying the digital business models for our brands via video and streaming platforms, increasing subscriptions and memberships and growing our events business while maintaining high levels of engineering standards, and we are looking for exceptional engineers to join our in-house teams to help us execute on our vision.\nCondé Nast thrives on collaboration, and our teams come together in the office four days a week(Monday - Thursday).\nPlease note that this is a 6 month fixed term contract.\nWe value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, skills and contributions, recognising the power our brands have to influence and shape culture.\nAbout Condé Nast Engineering\nAt Condé Nast we pride ourselves on diversity of thought, inclusivity and collaboration. Our shared goal is to solve problems creatively, learning and having fun in the process of building features that spark joy with our global audiences. Our in-house engineering teams are always working on something exciting.\nWe work in an AI-native way. We treat AI tooling as a normal part of how we design, build and review software, and we expect you to use it well and with good judgement. You do not need to be an expert, but you should be familiar with AI-assisted development tools, curious about where they can improve our work, and thoughtful about code quality, review and data handling when you use them.\nSome practices we like\nPair-programming. We like knowledge sharing and learning from one another.\nGlobal view. We work with peers in different geo-locations.\nMentoring and coaching. We care about each other.\nTapping into our creativity. Every first Friday of the month is a \"What You Want\" Day. We also participate in multi-day organisation-wide hackathons annually.\nContinuous deployment.\nOur technology at a glance\nJavaScript, TypeScript, Node.JS, React and React ecosystem, Next.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Kibana, Datadog, Codex, Gemini, ChatGPT\nKey Duties & Responsibilities\nWorking within a cross-functional team that includes design, UX and product management.\nShipping features and services that impact a large audience worldwide.\nContributing to technical decision-making, problem-solving, and estimation.\nPairing with members of your team to identify the optimal solution. Regularly conducting code reviews to ensure high standards of engineering quality in the code that we write.\nUsing your own technical expertise to help guide Product and Design decisions.\nMentoring colleagues at every level, and a willingness to be mentored by them.\nLooking at logs and monitoring metrics and responding to alerts; we use Kibana, ElasticSearch and Datadog extensively, but as long as you are aware of how important observability is, we do not mind what tools you may have used in the past.\nWorking in collaboration with Platform and Architecture teams as and when necessary.\nAbout you - Essential skills\nProficient in JavaScript, Node.js, good understanding of ES9 and JavaScript testing frameworks (such as Jest, Mocha etc.)\nGood understanding of Cloud Native architecture, containerisation, Docker, AWS, CI/CD, and DevOps culture. Kubernetes foundational knowledge would be a great bonus, as we use it extensively.\nPractical experience in the use of leading engineering practices and principles.\nAppreciation for the functions of Product and Design, and experience working in cross-functional teams.\nYou will try to make the codebase nicer for the next person that visits it.\nYou are someone who will own every step of the development process; from refining tickets to shipping the code to production.\nYou will do your best, and ask for help when it is needed.\nYou have an interest or desire to learn about every part of the stack; from the latest JavaScript standards, to GraphQL, to accessibility, and the infrastructure we deploy to.\nSomeone who can communicate in a variety of media (through Slack and in person) effectively within their team, outside of their team, and with people in our product and design families, and even with our users.\nAble to effectively communicate technical concepts to different audiences.\nBusiness proficiency in spoken and written English.\nAbout you - Desirable skills\nExperience working with international teams across multiple time-zones.\nKnowing about continuous integration, testing strategies, software architecture, user experience, accessibility, internationalisation and web performance.\nExperience and/or interest in working in publishing.\nExperience and/or interest in working across culture, music and lifestyle content.\nProficiency working with a variety of third-party APIs and developer tools.\nCommercial experience using Kubernetes and GraphQL.\nWhat benefits do we offer?\n25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and extra days of annual leave if you move house or want to volunteer. \nYou’ll have access to a competitive pension scheme, Bupa Private Healthcare, Season ticket loans and eye tests.\nWe offer a range of tools to support your wellbeing, including core hours, 10 remote days (from home or a country with a Condé Nast office location), access to our Employee Assistance Programme, corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme.\nWe’re a dog-friendly office, plus you’ll enjoy discounts and magazine subscriptions, keeping you up to date with all things Condé Nast.\nWe encourage personal and professional growth through the Condé Nast Learning Hub, where you’ll find an extensive portfolio of learning courses and training available in local languages.\nOur Employee Resource Groups provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives, exchange ideas, and work on community priorities for our global workforce. \nWhat happens next?\nIf 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.\nCondé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. 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