--- title: 'Staff Software Engineer, New York Magazine at Vox Media, LLC' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-new-york-magazine-vox-media-llc-new-york-gqrhva66qqpv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-31' --- # Staff Software Engineer, New York Magazine at Vox Media, LLC - **Company:** Vox Media, LLC - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $160k–$220k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31 - **Apply:** http://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/8287609?gh_jid=8287609 ## Job description Staff Software Engineer, New York Magazine Vox 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. - 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. - Improve quality and reliability. Investigate production issues, strengthen automated testing and observability, and address performance, accessibility, and security across publishing and subscription workflows. - 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. - 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. We’re looking for someone who brings: - 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 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. Pay Range $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. Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our recruiting team (recruitment@voxmedia.com). ## WHAT COMES NEXT Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @[voxmedia.com](http://voxmedia.com/) email addresses, never via text message. Read more about how our recruiting team operates, and how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud,[here](https://www.voxmedia.com/pages/recruiting-scam-warning). ## About Vox Media, LLC ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Vox Media is a leading modern media company that owns a prestigious portfolio of editorial brands, including Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, SB Nation, Eater, and others, reaching over 100 million monthly users. - **Entity Type**: Private (recently acquired by Penske Media Corporation in June 2026; prior ownership included Penske Media Corporation at 20%, Comcast, and former Group Nine investors including Warner Bros. Discovery at 25%) - **Headquarters**: Washington, D.C., United States (operational headquarters in Lower Manhattan, New York City) - **Founded**: November 1, 2011 - **Founders**: Jim Bankoff, Trei Brundrett ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Online Audio and Video Media, Digital Publishing, Podcasting, Advertising Technology - **Target customers**: B2B (advertisers and brand partners), B2C (consumers across its editorial brands), Enterprise (through its advertising solutions like Concert) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Vox Media is where influence sparks action. We define culture through stories that shape all aspects of our audience’s lives." ## Products & Services - **Editorial Brands**: Portfolio of 11+ brands including Vox (explainers/news), New York Magazine (culture/lifestyle), The Verge (technology), SB Nation (sports), Eater (food/restaurants), The Cut (fashion/women's issues), Vulture (entertainment), The Strategist (shopping/product reviews), Intelligencer (news/politics), Thrillist (lifestyle/travel), and PopSugar (lifestyle/entertainment). These are digital, print, and video properties. - **Vox Media Podcast Network**: Home to popular shows like *Pivot*, *Criminal*, *Today Explained*, *Decoder with Nilay Patel*, *The Vergecast*, and *Stay Tuned with Preet*. Reaches tens of millions of monthly listeners across audio, video, and social platforms. - **Vox Creative**: An in-house content studio that creates custom advertising campaigns and branded content for advertisers, leveraging insights from the company's brands. - **Concert**: A publisher-led advertising marketplace that uses first-party data to connect brands with audiences across a network of trusted media properties. It is described as an "always cookie-less proprietary AI platform." - **Forte**: An AI-powered platform that connects deep cultural signals to verifiable consumer action across print, digital, video, audio, and social. - **Vox Media Studios**: Produces TV, streaming, and video content. - **Events**: Executes edit-led tentpoles and client custom events, featuring specialized activation opportunities. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed as a private company. In June 2026, Vox Media was acquired by Penske Media Corporation. A prior deal in 2026 saw James Murdoch's Lupa Systems acquire roughly half the company (including its podcast network, New York magazine, and Vox website) for over $300 million, according to *The New York Times*. - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $650.0M (latest estimate). Total Funding of $407.6M across 8 rounds. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Penske Media Corporation (now owner), NBCUniversal (prior investor), General Atlantic (prior investor), Accel (prior investor), Warner Bros. Discovery (former investor). Key partners include advertisers on the Concert marketplace. - **Growth Signals**: Employs 705 people (+5.7% YoY). Monthly users of 325 million. Monthly video views of 1 billion. Monthly podcast downloads of 59 million. Top 10 US media company. Top 10 US podcast network. Recently acquired by Penske Media Corporation, signaling consolidation and strategic repositioning. ## Competitive Advantages - **Prestigious Brand Portfolio**: Owns some of the most trusted and culturally relevant media brands in the US (Vox, The Verge, New York Magazine, Eater), creating strong audience loyalty and advertising demand. - **Proprietary Advertising Technology (Concert & Forte)**: A "cookie-less" AI platform that provides a competitive edge in the privacy-focused advertising landscape, allowing for targeted, measurable campaigns without third-party cookies. - **Scale and Reach**: 325 million monthly users, 1 billion monthly video views, and a top-10 podcast network provide massive, cross-platform audience reach. - **Award-Winning Content**: Recognized with Pulitzer Prizes, National Magazine Awards, Emmy Awards, and James Beard Journalism Awards, reinforcing credibility and talent attraction. - **Diverse Revenue Streams**: Digital advertising, branded content (Vox Creative), podcasts, events, TV/streaming, and print create resilience and multiple growth levers. ## Strategic Focus - **AI and Data-Driven Advertising**: Continued investment in Forte and Concert to lead in cookie-less, AI-powered advertising solutions. - **Podcast and Audio Expansion**: Growing the Vox Media Podcast Network as a key revenue and audience growth driver. - **Brand Consolidation and Synergies**: Following the acquisition by Penske Media Corporation, likely focus on operational efficiencies and cross-brand collaboration. - **Direct-to-Consumer and Subscription**: Leveraging brands like New York Magazine and The Strategist for subscription and commerce revenue. - **Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion**: A stated commitment to building a diverse and inclusive company, with five pillars guiding this work. ## Why Work Here - **Culture and Values**: Described as a "fast-moving, creative, and collaborative community" that values "original ideas and meaningful work." Emphasis on curiosity and a shared commitment to exceptional work. - **Diversity and Inclusion**: Designated a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign for 7 consecutive years. Offers 20 weeks of paid parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers. Has nine Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) including PRIDE, Village (parents), AXS (disability), Bloom (women), The Culture (Black), Mi Gente (Hispanic/Latine), Rooted (AAPI), The Tribe (Jewish), and Yalla (MENA/Arab). - **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Not explicitly stated in the search results, but the company has offices in New York City, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, and London, suggesting a hybrid or office-based model is likely. - **Notable Perks**: 20 weeks paid parental leave, ERGs, and a focus on career progression and transparency. The company has been named one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators. - **Engineering/Technical Culture**: The company has a strong technical backbone (Concert, Forte, WordPress platform) and employs engineers, data scientists, and product managers. The "Decoder with Nilay Patel" podcast exemplifies a focus on tech and business strategy. - **Employee Sentiment**: Employer rating of 3.4/5.0 from 467 reviews on LinkedIn (Work-Life: 3.7, Compensation: 3.3, Culture: 3.4, Career: 2.9). This suggests a generally positive work-life balance and culture, but room for improvement in career development. - **Active Job Postings**: 15 active roles as of the search date, including Senior Director of Podcast Partnerships, Associate Marketing Director, Senior Video Producer, and Social Editor. ## Sources 1. [Vox Media Website](https://www.voxmedia.com/) 2. [Vox Media Jobs Page](https://www.voxmedia.com/jobs/) 3. [Vox Media LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vox-media-llc) 4. [Vox Media Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Media) 5. 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