Wordpress Developer

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 Platform Engineering

Our mission is to build modern media platforms to serve our omni-channel experiences for our portfolio of global brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Glamour which currently reaches over 500 million monthly users. We need your help to create new capabilities, and strengthen our existing ones, so that our brands can reach wider audiences through engaging digital experiences.

Quality, performance, experimentation, and speed of delivery are all principles at the heart of what we do as a Platform Engineering group. We have strong capabilities in areas such as editorial tooling, content delivery, design systems, advertising and commerce that we will continue to improve and grow. Our vision is to additionally invest in areas such as video, subscriptions, membership, and next generation editorial tools.

You will be working alongside international colleagues across the US, London, and India. We strongly emphasise cross-functional working through partnering directly with Product, Data, Design, UX and Delivery.

The Role

Condé Nast is looking for an experienced engineer to join and help us build the next generation of our content creation digital products. You will work closely with our product teams and help lead engineering teams in their shared mission to scale out and build our internal platform. These teams’ focus spans many types of products essential to both editors, other engineers, and subscribers. Your work will drive the future of Condé Nast’s digital strategy in today’s publishing market and reach our millions of readers around the world.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other disciplines (engineering, design, product) in the creation and iteration of web applications built for our subscribers

• Helping leading projects from ideation to execution to maintenance

• Collaborating with the broader engineering group on new ideas or improving existing ones

• Identify and improve code and usability performance issues

• Participate in design and code reviews

• Helping us grow and expand our engineering teams

About you

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Expert level fluency in at least 1 programing language

• Experience working with, designing, and deploying production-grade React/Ember applications

• Experience working with and helping Design Systems

• Familiarity and experience with designing, and deploying production-grade RESTful APIs, experience and knowledge of GraphQL APIs a plus

• Strong end-to-end testing experience and an emphasis on TDD methodologies

• Eager to learn about new technologies and implementing these ideas in a production environment

Our tech

• Languages and Frameworks: JavaScript, Node, React, Ember

• Data: Mongo, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kafka

• Deployment: Docker, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI

• Datadog, Kibana, Elastic search -  for observing our platform

• APIs: GraphQL

• Source Control: Git, GitHub

How we work

• Pairing. We like knowledge sharing and upskilling

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

• Infrastructure as Code everywhere

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

Why Work With Us?

• We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits

• We are a bunch of smart, passionate, diverse co-workers who love to teach and love to learn

• We provide whatever hardware and software you need to be productive

• A functional, well-disciplined product development organization

• Big changes are happening in publishing and at Condé Nast, and this is a great time to be a part of it all!

Job description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Managing Workflow
• Training New Hires
• Creating and managing team schedules.
• Reporting to Senior Management.
• Helping to resolve employee issues and disputes.
• Identifying and applying career advancement opportunities.
• Supervises personnel which typically includes recommendations for hiring, performance evaluation, training, work allocation, problem resolution and provide feedback.
• Manages the conceptualization, development, maintenance and expansion of print and digital publishing projects, including digital-only publications, simultaneous print and digital publications, and print publications.
• Manages the execution of special projects and other initiatives designed to achieve the overall mission, goals, and objectives of the organization.

• Establishes and implements short- and long-range organizational goals, objectives, strategic plans, policies, operating procedures, and product roadmap; monitors and evaluates programmatic and operational effectiveness, and effects changes required for improvement.
• Advises and collaborates with other staff to evaluate and manage resources for preparation, production and tracking of publications.
• Works with other departments to develop procedures and systems for appropriate recordkeeping related to expenses and revenues for print and digital publishing.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree; at least 5 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
• Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
• knowledge in print and digital publishing will be preferable.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and present information and ideas clearly and accurately in writing, verbally and by preparation of reports and other materials.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external organizations, groups, team leaders and members, and individuals.
• Demonstrated proficiency with suite of Adobe and Microsoft Office products; strong knowledge of electronic publishing formats as well as XML, HTML, XSLT and other languages and technologies related to e-books and electronic publishing.
• Strong knowledge of principles, practices and techniques of print and digital publishing and development.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex problems through the use of creative reasoning and logic to accurately determine the cause of the problems and their resolution in an effective and timely manner.

• Ability to foster a cooperative work environment.
• Strong analytical communication, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Employee development and performance management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize projects.
• Ability to supervise and train employees, to include organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling work assignments.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to develop and maintain recordkeeping systems and procedures.