Vox Media Group - Staff Software Engineer, New York Magazine
Requirements
• Deep JavaScript expertise and substantial experience building and operating production web applications and Node.js services. • A track record of leading complex technical initiatives across systems or teams, with impact beyond their individual contributions. • Strong frontend fundamentals, including HTML, CSS, accessibility, browser behavior, and application performance, alongside experience with frameworks such as Vue or React. • Experience designing APIs, data models, and integrations, including reliable handling of authentication, authorization, and transactional workflows. • Sound judgment when evolving mature codebases, including knowing when to extend existing patterns and when to introduce new approaches. • Strong debugging and testing skills, with experience diagnosing problems across application, service, and data boundaries. • The ability to connect engineering decisions to reader experience and business outcomes, including subscription conversion, engagement, and retention. • Experience using AI development tools responsibly, including providing useful context, evaluating generated output, and recognizing when human review and decision-making are essential. • Clear communication, collaborative technical leadership, and the ability to contribute to a TypeScript and React Native codebase. • Additional experience that would be valuable includes: • Consumer subscriptions, digital media, ecommerce, or other businesses built around recurring customer relationships. • Paywalls, payment platforms, subscription billing integrations, identity systems, or entitlement management. • Experimentation platforms, conversion analytics, and customer lifecycle experiences. • React Native, Expo, or shipping applications for iOS and Android. • Content management systems, editorial workflows, PostgreSQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch. • Building reusable AI workflows, agent tooling, or automation that improves engineering productivity. • Our web platform uses Node.js, Express, Clay CMS, Vue, and Handlebars. Our mobile app uses TypeScript, React Native, and Expo. You’ll work across these technologies and the services connecting content, customer accounts, and subscriptions. • We value curiosity, trust, respect, and clear communication. We’re looking for someone who enjoys sharing knowledge, learning from colleagues, and helping the whole team succeed. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t match every technology listed. • PAY TRANSPARENCY • PAY TRANSPARENCY • The salary range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience. • $160,000 - $220,000 USD • OUR DEI COMMITMENT • OUR DEI COMMITMENT • Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices.
Responsibilities
• Lead complex engineering initiatives. Translate product and business needs into technical plans, align collaborators around architectural decisions, and guide projects from discovery through delivery and operation. • Lead complex engineering initiatives. • Build and improve consumer subscription experiences. Develop subscription offers, checkout flows, promotions, gifting, onboarding, and account management features that support acquisition, conversion, and retention. • Build and improve consumer subscription experiences. • Support experimentation and growth. Partner with consumer revenue, product, and analytics teams to improve paywalls, registration experiences, and subscription journeys through reliable experiments and measurable results. • Support experimentation and growth. • Evolve our publishing platform. Build reusable components, editorial tools, and reader experiences that support the distinct needs of our brands and make publishing easier. • Evolve our publishing platform. • Contribute to the NYMag mobile app. • Guide incremental modernization. Identify architectural risks and technical debt, improve developer workflows, and balance near-term delivery with the long-term maintainability of an established platform. • Guide incremental modernization. • Improve quality and reliability. Investigate production issues, strengthen automated testing and observability, and address performance, accessibility, and security across publishing and subscription workflows. • Improve quality and reliability. • Champion responsible AI use. Develop and refine AI-assisted and agentic workflows for implementation, testing, debugging, review, and documentation. Protect sensitive information, validate generated changes, and maintain accountability for the resulting software. • Champion responsible AI use. • Help the team succeed. Mentor engineers, lead constructive code and design reviews, document important decisions, and establish shared practices that improve the team’s effectiveness. • Help the team succeed.
Benefits
• $160,000 - $220,000 USD • OUR DEI COMMITMENT • Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices.
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