Software Engineer (Commerce)

• Condé Nast’s commerce team builds the technology behind product discovery, personalized shopping, and checkout experiences across our portfolio of brands
• We’re looking for a Software Engineer III to help design and scale backend systems that power commerce initiatives, including styling and product recommendations, catalog, inventory, and order infrastructure, built to serve multiple brands, not just one
• You’ll work closely with product managers and engineers across the org to build systems that are fast, reliable, and designed for reuse and scale across Condé Nast’s diverse editorial and commerce properties
• As a backend engineer on Condé Nast’s commerce team, you’ll design and build services spanning multiple commerce initiatives, including product catalog and inventory systems, retail partner integrations, styling and recommendation features, and checkout infrastructure, with an eye toward reusability across our brands
• You’ll work closely with product managers to translate business goals into technical designs, and with frontend and other backend engineers to ship features end to end
• You’ll make architectural calls that balance speed of iteration with the reliability commerce demands, while thinking ahead about how a given system might need to flex for a different brand’s catalog structure, traffic pattern, or editorial workflow
• You’ll participate in code reviews and design discussions, and mentor other engineers to help raise the technical bar across the team
• Day to day, the specific project might shift: optimizing a product-matching query for styling recommendations one quarter, hardening a retail partner integration the next
• But the core of the work stays the same: partnering closely with product and engineering to build commerce systems that are reliable, well-designed, and scalable across Condé Nast’s portfolio of brands

Benefits

• Domestic Partner Benefit Extensions
• Free Mental Health Services
• Assistance in Refinancing Student Loans
• Long-term Remote Work Pilot
• Extended Bereavement leave
• Extended Parental Leave
• Added Adoption Financial Support

Preferred experience

• Experience designing systems with multi-tenancy or configurability in mind: building once and adapting across different use cases, teams, or brands, rather than one-off solutions
• AI-native mindset. Use AI tools as part of your everyday workflow, and look for opportunities to apply AI to solve real engineering and product problems, not just to write code faster
• Experience building and evolving REST and GraphQL APIs that serve both internal teams (editorial, styling, merchandising) and external partners (retail affiliates, payment providers, product data feeds)
• 6+ years building production backend systems, ideally with some exposure to e-commerce, retail, or content-commerce platforms
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design, applied pragmatically rather than academically
• Basic fluency in React, enough to collaborate closely with frontend engineers building shoppable articles, styling widgets, and product carousels
• Comfort designing event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS, EventBridge) for things like inventory sync, price updates, order status, and affiliate commerce events
• Comfortable owning the full development lifecycle, from version control and code review to automated testing and CI/CD deployment
• Strong database design instincts across relational and NoSQL systems (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• A collaborative streak: you’ll be pairing with product, editorial, and design stakeholders across multiple brands, each with its own voice and priorities
• Deep proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript/JavaScript, with a track record of designing services that hold up under real user traffic, including seasonal or campaign-driven spikes
• 6+ years of professional backend software development experience required
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience