Software Engineer 1

Condé Nast is one of the world’s most renowned media publishing companies, creating and distributing every type of media today, spanning print and digital publishing in all formats. 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 Location:

Bengaluru, KA

About Our Engineering Team 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.

About The Role 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 / SE1: Full stack to elevate the visual and interactive qualities of our consumer facing experiences across our portfolio of brands.

This role focuses on craft at scale. Building 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.

**Key Responsibilities & Areas of Impact::**

• Elevate Front End architecture

• Build polished, high quality UI elements as React components with a strong focus on layout, typography and interactive fidelity.
• Communicate implementation decisions clearly during code reviews and team discussions, and explain tradeoffs when appropriate.
• Utilize modern React and Typescript features. Familiarity with React 18+, TypeScript, 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.
• Work with 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.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate discovery, prototyping, testing, documentation, and implementation, while maintaining ownership of code quality, security, accessibility, and performance.
• Critically evaluate AI-generated code and recommendations, validating correctness through tests, peer review, observability, and sound engineering judgment.
• Identify pragmatic opportunities to use AI to improve publishing workflows, developer experience, content operations, or front-end platform efficiency, in partnership with Product, Design, Editorial, and Data teams.

• Contribute to responsible AI practices, including appropriate handling of confidential data, copyright-sensitive content, bias, attribution, human review, and brand/editorial integrity.

• Contribute to our Multi-Tenant Application

• Contribute to our re-use in our design system. Extend and refine shared component libraries to support brand-distinctive layouts without sacrificing …