Software Engineer (Commerce)

Join Condé Nast's commerce team as a Software Engineer III, where you'll design and scale backend systems that power commerce initiatives across multiple brands. You'll work closely with product managers and engineers to build fast, reliable, and reusable systems. Your responsibilities will include designing and building services for product catalog and inventory systems, retail partner integrations, styling and recommendation features, and checkout infrastructure. You'll also participate in code reviews, design discussions, and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Concevoir et mettre à l'échelle des systèmes backend qui alimentent les initiatives commerciales, y compris les recommandations de produits et l'infrastructure de commande.
• Collaborer avec les chefs de produit et les ingénieurs pour traduire les objectifs commerciaux en conceptions techniques et expédier les fonctionnalités de bout en bout.
• Participer aux revues de code et aux discussions de conception, et encadrer d'autres ingénieurs pour aider à élever le niveau technique de l'équipe.
• Experience designing systems with multi-tenancy or configurability in mind: building once and adapting across different use cases, teams, or brands, rather than one-off solutions
• AI-native mindset. Use AI tools as part of your everyday workflow, and look for opportunities to apply AI to solve real engineering and product problems, not just to write code faster
• Experience building and evolving REST and GraphQL APIs that serve both internal teams (editorial, styling, merchandising) and external partners (retail affiliates, payment providers, product data feeds)
• Basic fluency in React, enough to collaborate closely with frontend engineers building shoppable articles, styling widgets, and product carousels
• Comfort designing event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS, EventBridge) for things like inventory sync, price updates, order status, and affiliate commerce events
• Comfortable owning the full development lifecycle, from version control and code review to automated testing and CI/CD deployment
• Deep proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript/JavaScript, with a track record of designing services that hold up under real user traffic, including seasonal or campaign-driven spikes

Requirements

• 6+ years building production backend systems, ideally with some exposure to e-commerce, retail, or content-commerce platforms
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design, applied pragmatically rather than academically
• Strong database design instincts across relational and NoSQL systems (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• A collaborative streak: you'll be pairing with product, editorial, and design stakeholders across multiple brands, each with its own voice and priorities
• 6+ years of professional backend software development experience required
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Pay

USD 175,000 - 195,000