Senior Engineering Manager, CMS

Why Hearst Magazines?

Hearst Magazines is a global leader in publishing, home to more than 25 renowned brands such as Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s BAZAAR, Men’s Health, Popular Mechanics, and O the Oprah Magazine. We engage over 150 million people monthly in the U.S. alone, leveraging sophisticated content creation and cutting-edge technologies across print, digital, video, and social platforms. At Hearst, we continuously innovate, redefining media for the 21st century.

But we’re more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels - print, digital, video, and social – with sophisticated content creation, distribution, and data capabilities.  We create, package, and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing media for the 21st century.

Your Impact

As the Senior Engineering Manager, CMS, you will lead the engineering team developing our next-generation CMS - a mission-critical platform that supports over 140 global Hearst magazines and hundreds of editorial users. You will personally ensure timely delivery, exceptional quality and technical excellence for this project.

What You'll Do

• Lead and manage a software engineering team, providing daily guidance, clear performance expectations, and strategic career mentorship.
• Hands-on daily involvement in development, architectural decisions, and complex technical problem-solving.
• Own and actively drive project timelines from proof of concept through production deployment, ensuring critical deadlines are consistently met without sacrificing quality.
• Directly engage in technical problem-solving, providing hands-on leadership and expert-level guidance, particularly in React development.
• Establish and enforce rigorous engineering standards, including robust testing, optimized deployment, and comprehensive monitoring strategies.
• Closely collaborate with Product teams to clearly define priorities and acceptance criteria.
• Own CMS reliability and drive rapid issue resolution to minimize downtime.

Who You Are

Requirements / Technology

• Overall front-end development experience: 8 years minimum.
• At least 4 years of intensive, production-level React experience.
• Deep understanding of performance optimization in React-based applications.
• Proven ability to build and manage front-end architecture at scale.
• Expertise in mentoring engineers specifically in modern JavaScript/React development practices.
• Experience with Node.js and GraphQL, demonstrating practical knowledge in building and maintaining scalable systems.
• Deep expertise in observability best practices (SLAs, SLIs, SLOs), alerting, instrumentation, and proactive incident management.
• Proven ability to manage high-quality, rapid release cycles, including effective testing and deployment processes.
• Robust understanding of SQL databases, caching mechanisms, and authentication/authorization strategies.
• Familiarity with Amazon AWS services.

Requirements / Management

• Demonstrated record of responsibly delivering large-scale, high-impact projects by hiring, coaching, and leading high-performing software engineering teams.
• Proven commitment to team accountability, urgency, continuous improvement, and professional growth for team members.

Bonus Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python development.
• Experience with Apollo.js.
• Experience developing solutions for multi-tenant environments.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging systems.
• Experience integrating identity management solutions like Okta.
• Experience with LLM assisted code generation. 

The base salary for this role is between $160,000-$185,000. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hearst Magazines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.