Description

The Opportunity

At Dwell, we champion up-to-date architecture and design that improves people's lives. We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to take ownership of the digital backbone of Dwell.com—a respected platform serving millions of design enthusiasts, architects, and homeowners.

In this role, you will work primarily on our proprietary Content Management System (CMS), a

custom-built platform engineered in JavaScript and MySQL. You will partner directly with our Product, Editorial, Design, and Ad-Operations teams. You will play a pivotal role in evolving a custom publishing engine alongside our membership and transactional features, ensuring the site scales seamlessly with our audience while delivering a fully optimized, secure and visually stunning user experience.

Key Responsibilities

Custom CMS Development: Architect, build, and deploy new features for Dwell’s custom JavaScript-based Content Management System to support editorial workflows and digital storytelling.
Database Management & Optimization: Design, write, and optimize complex MySQL queries,



schemas, and migrations to ensure high data integrity and sub-second retrieval times for high-traffic pages.
Full-Stack Feature Delivery: Write clean, highly maintainable frontend and backend JavaScript code, translating UI/UX designs from Figma into responsive, accessible web pages.
Community, Membership & Commerce Platforms: Own the development, maintenance, and continuous optimization of user-generated content (UGC) features, subscriber membership programs, and secure transactional workflows.
Publishing & Ad-Tech Enablement: Collaborate with the Product team to build custom tooling for editors, integrate third-party APIs, and optimize our digital monetization and ad-delivery frameworks.
Site Performance & Stability: Proactively monitor application health, resolve production bugs, tackle technical debt, and optimize for Core Web Vitals and SEO best practices.
Agile Collaboration: Participate

📌 Sr. Software Engineer (India)
🏢 Ziff Davis
📍 India