UX Designer

Job Description

Condé Nast has a huge global footprint across 32 countries worldwide with total monthly visitors reaching more than 550 million. We aim to inspire, inform and entertain our audiences through our portfolio of well known brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, GQ and many other leading brands.

Condé Nast has operations in America, Europe, South America and Asia. There are long-established operations in major Indian cities such as Mumbai and Chennai across many business areas.

The company is undertaking the biggest transformation in its history, driving towards expanding both its operations and its reach through diversifying the digital business models for our brands. Major areas of focus will include video and streaming platforms, increasing subscriptions and memberships, growing our events business, and ensuring we maintain a high level of standard on the products we are already proud of delivering to our customers. Migrating and consolidating to a more centralised set of technologies and capabilities that can be easily leveraged by any brand or product experience is also a top business priority.

Engineering is responsible for scaling, building, deploying websites that serve over 500 million users globally. The global engineering team includes Product Engineering, Platform Engineering and Core Engineering.

About Brand Engineering

Our mission is to build compelling and inspiring experiences across our portfolio of global brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Glamour which currently reaches over 500 million monthly users. Our goals are extremely ambitious; we are rolling out our brands into new countries and territories and pushing to serve more consumers across web, native (iOS / Android), video and social platforms.

We want you to join us as we embark on further global expansion of our brands, creation of new features to deliver our engaging content to consumers worldwide, and diversifying our revenue models. We believe in fostering a culture of experimentation and innovation, often running hundreds of a/b experiments in production every day! 

You will be working alongside international colleagues across US, London, and India. Cross-functional collaboration is at the heart of what we do and you will be comfortable working in close partnership with Product, Design, UX, and Data. The Brand Engineering group works in close partnership with the Platform Engineering group to implement cross-cutting solutions that can be leveraged by the Brands to deliver robust end-to-end experiences for our consumers.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior JavaScript engineer to join our team at our Chennai/Bengaluru office.We ideally hire engineers who are comfortable across the full stack, but we know you'll have a preference about being on the front- or back-end. As long as you're happy to work on both sets of tasks – you should carry on reading!

Our tech

• Languages and Frameworks: Javascript, Node.JS, React (and React eco-system)

• APIs: GraphQL

• Data: Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch

• Deployment: Docker, AWS, Kubernetes

• Source Control: Git, GitHub

How we work

• Infrastructure as Code everywhere

• Pairing. We like knowledge sharing and upskilling

• Remote friendly. We work with engineers across time zones & locations

• (Oncall - teams are responsible for their own apps)

Role and responsibilities

• Working on our collection of Node apps; we use a mix of Express, Hapi, and Fastify

• Working on our front-end apps; we use a mix of React and Next.js but as long as you have experience in at least one framework we don’t really mind

• Shipping features and services to anywhere between thousands to millions of customers per day.

• Collaboratively working with our amazing infrastructure team

• Mentoring colleagues at every level, and a willingness to be mentored by them

• Supporting your Tech Lead and Engineering Manager in technical decision making, solutionizing and estimations.

• Pairing with members of your team to identify the most optimal solution. Regularly conducting code reviews to ensure high standards of engineering quality in the code that we write.

• Working within a cross-functional team that includes designers, UX engineers, and product

• Looking at logs and monitoring metrics and responding to alerts; we use Kibana, ElasticSearch and Datadog extensively, but as long as you’re aware of how important observability is, we don’t mind what tools you may have used in the past.

• Taking part in our 24/7 “On Call” rota to troubleshoot any major operational issues out of hours. Teams are responsible for their own apps availability and reliability.

About you - Essential skills

• You have a BE / BTech or equivalent experience

• You’re a software engineer with 7-9 years of experience. 

• Expert knowledge of JavaScript and Node.js, good understanding of ES9 and React.js and JavaScript testing frameworks (such as Jest, Mocha etc.)

• Good 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.

• Practical experience in the use of leading engineering practices and principles.

• Practical experience of building robust solutions at large scale. We serve traffic in the many millions every month so our products need to scale seamlessly to meet our customer demands.

• Appreciation for functions of Product and Design, experience working in cross-functional teams.

• You’ll try to make the codebase nicer for the next person that visits it.

• You’re someone who’ll own every step of the development process; from refining tickets to shipping the code to production.

• You’ll do your best, and ask for help when it’s needed.

• You 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 (we use Kubernetes extensively, but we have a dedicated platform team on hand to help!)

• Someone 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, to even our users

• Able to effectively communicate technical concepts to different audiences

• Business proficiency in spoken and written English

• You will be working with a global team and need to be accommodative of different time-zones as required

About you - Desirable skills

• Experience of working with international teams across multiple time-zones

• Mentoring and/or management experience

• Knowing about continuous integration, testing strategies, design systems, software architecture, data and analytics, user experience, accessibility, internationalisation, web performance

• Experience and/or interest in working with digital advertising

• Experience and/or interest in working in publishing

• Experience and/or interest in working with Fashion

• Proficiency working with a variety of third party APIs and developer tools

• Commercial experience using Kubernetes, React and GraphQL

Job description

The Javascript Technical Lead is a demonstrated thought leader in technical and/or functional aspects of customer and partner engagements that lead to the successful delivery of Javascript Projects at QED42.

The Javascript Technical Lead plays a critical role in setting customers up for success by prescriptively helping to shape and then lead the project teams within the Javascript space.

This role also provides the Professional Services team with subject matter expertise related to the proposed solution and client needs in order to ensure successful project delivery. This includes helping to identify and proactively manage risk areas and ensuring issues are seen through to complete resolution. Will have the ability to configure and drive solutions, while mentoring the project team to meet the customers' business and technical requirements.

Responsibilities :

• 6 - 10 years of experience in Web Technologies and Software Development
• Primarily responsible for building the infrastructure that is highly available and scalable.
• Technical leader in building solutions that can help scale the infrastructure. Must have a passion for building great developer experiences and have high energy and are capable of thriving in a high-paced and fun work environment.
• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for JavaScript @ QED42
• When engaged with customers, assist with team leadership and help/exceed goals and metrics while providing insight to Javascript best practices
• Lead mentorship programs to help scale JS technical and functional knowledge within Delivery Services
• Coordinate monthly practice meetings to encourage and share knowledge with members of the team
• Engage in continued, self-directed professional growth and development
• Deliver high client satisfaction by ensuring value is realized through each engagement, helping customers realize and execute on a 1:1 marketing vision that unifies a customer's experience on the Web and Mobile.
• Inspire people to do the best work of their careers by being a multiplier, amplifying the knowledge and capability of the people around you while continuing to provide an inclusive workplace as one of the Best Places to Work
• Collaborate with the Marketing / Sales Team to drive continued growth of services

Leadership Qualities:

• PASSION: Passionate about Customer Success
• BEGINNER'S MIND: Always learning; approaches each interaction with an open mind; great listener and hands-on
• LEADERSHIP: Self-aware and strategic thinker; proficient at building strong relationships
• COMMUNICATOR: Speaks and writes with clarity, brevity, and purpose; explains the area of expertise clearly and confidently to others.
• STORYTELLER: Confidently and effectively facilitates and presents; ably defends point-of-view; keeps audiences engaged and delivers a clear and memorable message
• TEAM PLAYER: Proficient at collaboration and working with members of a team
• URGENCY: Ability to move fast and drive business value and results
• TRUST: Trusts the company's core values; shows integrity, transparency, and reliability
• ADAPTABLE: Excels in high levels of uncertainty and change
• COMMUNITY CHAMPION: Leads internal initiatives; actively contributes to the Community knowledge and resource base

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience planning, designing, developing, and delivering software related to platforms using Node JS, React JS, React Native etc. Preferred experienced full stack developer
• Experience with ES6, ReactJS ,NodeJS, ExpressJs, MongoDB, React Native, GraphQL, GatsbyJS.
• Strong experience in some of the following technologies is highly desirable: Node.js, React.js,Next.js, AWS, GCP, Docker, and scripting.
• Understanding of web technologies including HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
• Understanding of web application architecture including single-page applications and server-side HTML web applications.
• Hands-on experience with the design and development of scalable web services and platforms.
• Ability to work independently and be a self-starter
• Comfort and ability to learn new technologies quickly & thoroughly
• Specializes in gathering and analyzing information related to web and data integration, real-time interactions, and customer use cases
• Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills
• Excellent knowledge of Enterprise Design Patterns
• Experience with any Cloud computing technology (AWS Preferred) and sound knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps
• Good with Agile concepts and processes 
• Demonstrated ability to influence a group audience, facilitate solutions and lead discussions such as implementation methodology, Road-mapping, Enterprise Transformation strategy, and executive-level requirement gathering sessions

Additional information

What you will get:

• A clear career path, strong leadership, and an open work environment where you will be challenged, respected, and valued by your merits.
• A company that is proud of the quality of its work and invested in your personal development and well-being.
• A team that respects openness, does its job well, values customers, and plays fair.
• Individuals who are fun to work with, are invested in each other’s growth and take the value seriously.
• Dedicated time for self-improvement, socializing, and collaboration (Conferences/Camps, Certifications, Learning Sessions, Celebrations, and Retreats)
• Flexible work schedule so long as you uphold your commitments to your family, team, and clients.
• Competitive salary, insurance, and a lot of perks

• Work with Product Managers, Architects, and other stakeholders to define/refine solution requirements
• Coding of customization's, long-running tasks, API integrations to implement & upgrade the solution.
• Apply Software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation) 
• Experience developing in an agile setting with code reviews and quality as a priority 

• Strong experience of at least 5 years in C#, .NET Core/.NET Framework, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, Entity Framework, and enterprise .NET applications/frameworks.
• Relevant experience in developing and deploying web applications in .NET environment on Web Servers (IIS or Others) and MS SQL or MySQL Database. 
• Web development experience in JavaScript, Angular/Kendo UI, and REST APIs.
• Exposure to application development and deployment on any one of the major cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Test-driven development and Unit testing using mocking frameworks and xUnit, Nunit, or MS Test.

• Understanding of Advertisement domain or Contract Management domain experience will be an advantage
• Knowledge and experience of working on Microservices Architecture-based solutions.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and knowledge of container technology such as Docker and container workflow and management using Kubernetes.
• Integration experience with Salesforce, MS CRM, Workday will be an edge
• Building applications using search API’s like ElasticSearch or Azure Search using their .NET or REST APIs  
• Exposure to developing and deploying on Azure cloud services like Web Apps, Logic Apps, Service Bus and Azure SQL.

• A higher degree of autonomy, startup culture & small teams
• Opportunities to become an expert in emerging technologies
• Remote working options for the right maturity level
• Competitive salary & family benefits
• Performance-based career advancement