Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer at Vox Media Group working on New York Magazine's publishing platform, websites, and consumer subscription experiences (checkout, paywall, accounts) across web and mobile. Core stack: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js/Express, Vue, Handlebars, Clay CMS, and React Native/Expo for the iOS/Android app.
- Compensation
- $160K–$220K / yr
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Deep JavaScript expertise and substantial experience building/operating production web applications and Node.js services
- Track record leading complex technical initiatives across systems or teams
- Strong frontend fundamentals: HTML, CSS, accessibility, browser behavior, application performance; experience with frameworks such as Vue or React
- Experience designing APIs, data models, and integrations, including authentication, authorization, and transactional workflows
- Sound judgment evolving mature codebases
- Strong debugging and testing skills across application, service, and data boundaries
- Ability to connect engineering decisions to reader experience and business outcomes (subscription conversion, engagement, retention)
- Experience using AI development tools responsibly
- Clear communication and ability to contribute to a TypeScript and React Native codebase
Nice to have
- Experience with consumer subscriptions, digital media, ecommerce, or recurring-customer businesses
- Paywalls, payment platforms, subscription billing integrations, identity systems, or entitlement management
- Experimentation platforms, conversion analytics, 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 for engineering productivity
Full description
Staff Software Engineer, New York Magazine
Location: New York, NY
Department: Growth
Staff Software Engineer, New York MagazineVox Media Group LLC
Vox Media Group LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the technology behind New York Magazine’s journalism and consumer subscriptions business. Your primary focus will be the websites, publishing platform, and subscription experiences supporting New York, The Cut, Vulture, Intelligencer, The Strategist, Grub Street, and Curbed. You’ll also contribute to the NYMag mobile apps for iOS and Android.
As a hands-on technical engineering leader, you’ll help editors publish compelling stories, readers discover journalism they value, and subscribers get the most from their relationship with our brands. Your work will span editorial experiences and the subscriber journey, from registration and purchase through onboarding, account management, and ongoing engagement.
You’ll partner with product, design, editorial, and consumer revenue teams to guide technical decisions and deliver improvements across web and mobile. You’ll also help advance our responsible use of AI and agentic workflows to increase delivery speed, expand engineering capacity, and improve efficiency.
Your responsibilities will include:
- 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.
- Build and improve consumer subscription experiences. Develop subscription offers, checkout flows, promotions, gifting, onboarding, and account management features that support acquisition, conversion, and retention.
- Strengthen subscriber identity and access. Improve the integrations connecting authentication, payments, subscription status, and content entitlements so readers can reliably access what they’ve purchased across web and mobile.
- 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.
- Evolve our publishing platform. Build reusable components, editorial tools, and reader experiences that support the distinct needs of our brands and make publishing easier.
- Contribute to the NYMag mobile app. Partner with mobile engineers on reading experiences, content discovery, and subscriber features. Design APIs and content models that support consistent experiences across platforms.