Engineering Manager, Vogue

30450 Condé Nast Holdings Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bupa Private Healthcare

Season ticket loans

Remote working days (4+ per month)

Employee assistance

Job summary

Condé Nast is seeking an Engineering Lead to drive the Vogue products engineering effort. You will lead a team while contributing to production code, shaping architecture, and setting engineering standards. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership, including mentoring engineers and advancing AI-assisted development.

You will collaborate with product and design partners to deliver scalable, brand-agnostic features and ensure robust performance across platforms.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a software engineer with production systems.
• Proven line management experience, including hiring and performance management.
• Hands-on coding with production code review and credible technical discussions.
• Strong fluency in JavaScript and modern web technologies.
• Experience shipping AI-powered product features and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction and hands-on delivery for Vogue products.
• Contribute to production code across back-end APIs and front-end components.
• Set architecture, design patterns and engineering standards for the team.
• Lead projects from ideation through maintenance and reviews.
• Collaborate with product/design and ensure clear stakeholder communication.

Skills

JavaScript

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Line management

Hands-on coding

AI tooling

Communication skills

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

Git

GitHub

NodeJS

ReactJS

TypeScript

GraphQL

Job description

About Condé Nast

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 Location

Job Description Location: London, GB Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, CN Traveller, Vanity Fair, Wired, The World of Interiors, House & Garden and Tatler, among many others. We are headquartered in New York and London and operate in 32 markets worldwide, with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers across print, digital, video and social platforms. Condé Nast thrives on collaboration, and our teams come together in the office four days a week (Monday - Thursday).

Engineering Lead – Vogue Products

Condé Nast is looking for an experienced engineering leader to help build the next generation of Vogue products. You will lead an engineering team in its mission to keep Vogue users entertained and inspired, improving content discoverability and enabling scalable, brand agnostic solutions. This is a hands‑on leadership role. You should be as comfortable in a design review or a pull request as you are in a one‑to‑one or a performance conversation. We want you to work in an AI‑native way and guide your team in doing the same. That means treating AI tooling as a normal part of how work gets designed, built and reviewed here, setting clear standards for using it well, and looking for places where it can improve the product for our users.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership and hands‑on delivery. Contribute directly to production code across back‑end APIs and front‑end components, and stay close enough to the detail to make credible technical decisions.
• Set and own the technical direction for your team, including architecture, design patterns and engineering standards.
• Lead projects from ideation through execution to maintenance.
• Participate in design and code reviews, and raise the standard of both across the team.
• Identify and resolve code, performance and usability issues.
• Evaluate libraries and tools for integration into our platform, including AI tooling, and set standards for how the team uses it covering code quality, review, security and data handling.
• Balance delivery against platform health, technical debt and long‑term maintainability.

Line Management & People Leadership

• Line manage a team of engineers, owning their growth, performance and wellbeing through regular one‑to‑ones, clear expectations and honest feedback.
• Coach engineers through career progression, including the difficult conversations, and support each person in doing their best work.
• Build a team where people feel safe to ask questions, raise concerns, disagree with you and admit mistakes, and make space for quieter and newer voices in technical discussion.
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding for your team, with attention to fair and consistent assessment.

Collaboration and Delivery

• Work closely with product and design partners on the creation and iteration products and features.
• Own the delivery of your team's work, planning and prioritising alongside your product partner.
• Keep stakeholders informed with clear communication about progress, risk and trade‑offs.
• Collaborate with the broader engineering group on new ideas and on improving existing ones.

What We Value

• Significant experience as a software engineer, with a track record of shipping and running production systems.
• Proven line management experience, including career development, hiring and performance management.
• Comfortable remaining hands‑on. You still write and review production code, and you contribute credibly to technical discussions with engineers at every level.
• Deep, current fluency in JavaScript.
• Experience working with, designing and deploying production‑grade RESTful APIs.
• Experience and knowledge of GraphQL APIs is a plus.
• Have seen technical projects through the entire development lifecycle, from ideation through execution and maintenance.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and strong attention to design detail.
• Excellent communication skills, including being comfortable explaining technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
• A track record of mentoring and developing engineers, including people whose background or route into the industry may differ from your own.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development tools and a considered view on how engineering teams should use them.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in digital publishing, media or another high‑traffic, content‑heavy domain.
• Experience working on content discoverability, personalisation or search.
• Experience with brand agnostic or multi‑tenant platforms.
• Experience shipping AI‑powered product features, for example using large language models, embeddings, semantic search or recommendation systems.
• Experience introducing engineering practices or AI tooling across a team.

Things We Use Daily

• Languages and Frameworks: JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJS, TypeScript, GraphQL
• Deployment: Docker, AWS, Kubernetes
• Source Control: Git, GitHub
• AI Tooling: Codex, ChatGPT, Gemini

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and extra days of annual leave if you move house or want to volunteer.
• competitive pension scheme.
• Bupa Private Healthcare.
• Season ticket loans and eye tests.
• core hours, 10 remote days (from home or a country with a Condé Nast office location).
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• corporate gym membership.
• cycle to work scheme.
• dog-friendly office.
• discounts and magazine subscriptions.

Equal Opportunity

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Condé Nast we value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, their skills and contributions. And we recognize the power our brands have to influence and shape culture, catalyze action and help make our world a better place for all.

More Information

For more information, please visit condenast.com and follow @CondeNast and @CondeNastCareer for Twitter and @condenastcareers for Instagram.