Software Engineer 1

Conde Nast India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Conde Nast India is seeking a Front End Software Engineer / SE1: Full stack to elevate our consumer facing experiences across Vogue and other brands. You will craft premium interfaces, bridging design intent with production-grade code, collaborating with Product Design and platform engineers to deliver scalable UI across our portfolio.

You’ll work on modern React architectures, performance-optimized experiences, and a multi-brand design system, with a focus on accessibility and brand

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience developing front-end with React and TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of GraphQL (fragments, schemas, component queries).
• Solid knowledge of React 18+, hooks, SSR hydration patterns.
• CSS fundamentals including layout, responsive design and typography.
• Accessibility and inclusive design principles.
• Experience optimizing Core Web Vitals and reducing runtime costs.
• Curious mindset to learn, iterate and push the platform forward.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and AI documentation workflows.
• Ability to critique and test AI-generated outputs, not take them at face value.
• Awareness of responsible AI practices: privacy, security, IP, editorial integrity.

Responsibilities

• Elevate Front End architecture with polished UI elements as React components.
• Communicate decisions clearly during code reviews and discussions.
• Utilize modern React and TypeScript features (React 18+, SSR, hooks).
• Write reusable, semantic code with long-term scalability in mind.
• Work with GraphQL schemas, fragments, and resolvers for efficient data payloads.
• Design with Core Web Vitals to improve LCP, CLS, INP and performance.
• Ensure accessibility and responsive behaviors across devices and markets.
• Use AI-assisted tools responsibly to accelerate discovery, prototyping, testing, documentation and implementation.
• Critically evaluate AI-generated code with tests and peer review.
• Identify opportunities to use AI to improve publishing workflows and developer experience.

Skills

React & TS

GraphQL

React 18+

CSS Fundamentals

Accessibility

CWV Optimization

AI-assisted tooling

AI validation

Curiosity

Responsible AI

Job description

Job Summary

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.

Location

Bengaluru, KA

About Our Engineering Team

Our engineering team builds and evolves Verso, the shared front-end platform powering more than 70 Cond 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.

What We're Looking For (Experience Skills)

• 2+ years of experience developing high-quality front-end experiences using React and TypeScript.
• Strong understanding with GraphQL, including fragments, schemas, and component-oriented queries.
• Solid understanding of modern React (hooks, suspense, SSR/Hydration, RSC concepts).
• Strong CSS fundamentals (layout systems, responsive design, animation, typography).
• Strong understanding of accessibility, usability, and inclusive design principles.
• Experience optimizing Core Web Vitals and reducing real-world runtime costs.
• Curious mindset with a desire to learn, iterate, and push the platform forward.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as coding assistants, chat-based technical copilots, or AI-supported documentation/search workflows.
• Ability to prompt, critique, test, and refine AI-generated outputs rather than accepting them unreviewed.
• Awareness of responsible AI considerations, including privacy, security, intellectual property, accessibility, bias, and editorial trust.
• Curious about AI-enabled product experiences and how they can support publishing, storytelling, personalization, discovery, or internal tooling.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 behaviours, 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 consistency.
  • Contribute to configuration-driven approaches that allow brands to express themselves while remaining maintainable at scale.
  • Your code should be written in a way that helps enable rapid enablement. You approach problems with a pragmatic perspective and find solutions during the discovery phase that allows for rapid enablement.
  • Participate in design reviews, architectural discussions, and platform strategy.
  • Follow established engineering standards for code quality, accessibility, and performance.