Staff Software Engineer, Subscriptions & Publishing

Vox Media; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Vox Media is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for New York Magazine to shape the technology behind journalism and subscriptions. You’ll work on websites, publishing platform, and subscription experiences for NY Magazine, The Cut, Vulture, Intelligencer, and more, contributing to iOS and Android apps.

You’ll lead complex initiatives, guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and advance AI-enabled workflows while ensuring reliability, performance, and a strong reader experience.

Qualifications

• Lead complex engineering initiatives from discovery through delivery and operation.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex engineering initiatives from discovery through delivery and operation.
• Build and improve subscriber experiences: offers, checkout, onboarding, and retention.
• Strengthen subscriber identity and access across web and mobile.
• Support experimentation and growth with reliable paywalls and registration journeys.
• Evolve the publishing platform with reusable components and editorial tools.
• Contribute to the NYMag mobile app with cross‑platform APIs and content models.
• Identify architectural risks and balance modernization with maintainability.
• Improve quality through testing, observability, performance, accessibility, and security.
• Champion responsible AI use with review and documentation.
• Mentor engineers and lead code/design reviews.

Skills

Leadership

APIs design

Code debugging

AI tooling

TypeScript

React Native

Tools

Node.js

Express

Clay CMS

Vue

Handlebars

TypeScript

React Native

Expo

Job description

Vox Media is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for New York Magazine to shape the technology behind journalism and subscriptions. You’ll work on websites, publishing platform, and subscription experiences for NY Magazine, The Cut, Vulture, Intelligencer, and more, contributing to iOS and Android apps.

You’ll lead complex initiatives, guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and advance AI-enabled workflows while ensuring reliability, performance, and a strong reader experience.