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Features editor jobs are open across print magazines, digital media, newspapers, and content studios, from staff-level to senior and editorial director, with specializations in long-form narrative, lifestyle, and investigative features. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Location
Remote
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Engineering
About us
Launched in 2019, Constructor is an AI-first e-commerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find the right products at the right time and enables leading global e-commerce brands to drive meaningful revenue and conversion gains.
About the team
The SABR team owns the top layer of request processing for product discovery. We own the service that first receives product discovery requests (autocomplete, search, browse & recommendations) & executes the entire business logic that drives product discovery. That service also functions as a gateway to parse incoming user requests, orchestrate calls across the internal services that do the ranking and retrieval, interpret their responses, and assemble the final response the customer sees. We also own the public configuration APIs customers use to control how discovery behaves, and the MCP layer that exposes all of it to AI agents.
Our team owns both platform & product components: Because of the positioning of our services, we take part in every architectural decision of our core product offering. At the same time, our goals are heavily influenced by direct customer feedback, because all product discovery-related features are either implemented in or integrated with our services.
All of our services are public APIs, so interface design and backward compatibility are a constant part of the job. But most of our attention goes to keeping them fast and up: we serve up to 15k RPS, fan out to many internal services on every request, and are expected to stay available and degrade gracefully when any of them fails or slows down.
The work is distributed systems in practice rather than in theory: request orchestration, failure isolation, caching, latency budgets, capacity planning, and the observability to know what is actually happening in production. The team is small enough that engineers own problems end to end, from design through on-call.
About you
You're a senior engineer who wants to own features end to end, not just close tickets. You've built and run production Python services, ideally high-traffic or latency-sensitive ones, and you've been on-call for them. You think in trade-offs: latency versus cost, a quick fix versus a durable one, a new parameter versus a public API customers can't afford to see break. You can take a feature from a rough problem statement to a design, ship it, and then make sure it behaves in production. You're comfortable leading a project with one or two other engineers and helping teammates grow along the way. When a problem is only partly defined, you ask the right questions to pin it down. When you meet an unfamiliar protocol or system, you read the spec and work out how it fits. You change your mind when someone has a better argument, and you still care about your code long after it merges.
What you will do
Own the design and delivery of features and components in our services.
Design and evolve public API endpoints with backward compatibility in mind, and contribute to architecture discussions for our services.
Improve performance and reliability: find latency and failure hotspots, add the observability needed to understand them, and fix them.
Take an active part in design and code review, and mentor mid-level engineers.
Work with product, solutions/support, and other engineering teams to understand customer needs and turn them into solid technical solutions
Take part in on-call for the systems you own, and lead incident response and follow-through when things break.
What we are looking for
Technical
Solid experience building and operating backend services in production, ideally high-traffic or low-latency ones.
Extensive Python knowledge (our primary language).
Hands-on experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and debugging performance issues in live systems.
Experience designing and evolving public APIs that external customers depend on.
Experience designing & implementing scalable service-oriented architectures.
Beyond the code
Track record of delivering projects end to end, including leading small efforts with other engineers.
Collaborative mindset: open to feedback, and willing to change your position when someone has a better argument.
Clear written communication - design docs, RFCs, postmortems.
Good judgment about trade-offs and scope.
Comfort with ambiguity and loosely defined problems.
Ownership that extends past merge, to how the system behaves in production.
Nice to have
Experience with AWS
Background in search, ranking, information retrieval, or e-commerce product discovery.
Exposure to AI/LLM-facing infrastructure (MCP, agent tooling, or similar).
Benefits
️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
Fully remote team - choose where you live
️ Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office
Apple laptops provided for new employees
Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees
Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact
Base salary: $80k–$120k USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results TBD
Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary
Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor
At Constructor.io we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group.
Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every one of the qualifications listed. Our primary interest is in finding the best candidate for the job. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of our listed qualifications.
How we handle your data. By submitting this application, you acknowledge that Constructor will collect and process the personal data you provide for the purpose of evaluating your candidacy for this role. If you are not selected, we will retain your data for a limited period as described in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. After that period your data will be deleted or anonymized.
How we handle your data. By submitting this application, you acknowledge that Constructor will collect and process the personal data you provide for the purpose of evaluating your candidacy for this role. If you are not selected, we will retain your data for a limited period as described in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. After that period your data will be deleted or anonymized.
Location
Remote
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Engineering
About us
Launched in 2019, Constructor is an AI-first e-commerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find the right products at the right time and enables leading global e-commerce brands to drive meaningful revenue and conversion gains.
About the team
The SABR team owns the top layer of request processing for product discovery. We own the service that first receives product discovery requests (autocomplete, search, browse & recommendations) & executes the entire business logic that drives product discovery. That service also functions as a gateway to parse incoming user requests, orchestrate calls across the internal services that do the ranking and retrieval, interpret their responses, and assemble the final response the customer sees. We also own the public configuration APIs customers use to control how discovery behaves, and the MCP layer that exposes all of it to AI agents.
Our team owns both platform & product components: Because of the positioning of our services, we take part in every architectural decision of our core product offering. At the same time, our goals are heavily influenced by direct customer feedback, because all product discovery-related features are either implemented in or integrated with our services.
All of our services are public APIs, so interface design and backward compatibility are a constant part of the job. But most of our attention goes to keeping them fast and up: we serve up to 15k RPS, fan out to many internal services on every request, and are expected to stay available and degrade gracefully when any of them fails or slows down.
The work is distributed systems in practice rather than in theory: request orchestration, failure isolation, caching, latency budgets, capacity planning, and the observability to know what is actually happening in production. The team is small enough that engineers own problems end to end, from design through on-call.
About you
You're a senior engineer who wants to own features end to end, not just close tickets. You've built and run production Python services, ideally high-traffic or latency-sensitive ones, and you've been on-call for them. You think in trade-offs: latency versus cost, a quick fix versus a durable one, a new parameter versus a public API customers can't afford to see break. You can take a feature from a rough problem statement to a design, ship it, and then make sure it behaves in production. You're comfortable leading a project with one or two other engineers and helping teammates grow along the way. When a problem is only partly defined, you ask the right questions to pin it down. When you meet an unfamiliar protocol or system, you read the spec and work out how it fits. You change your mind when someone has a better argument, and you still care about your code long after it merges.
What you will do
Own the design and delivery of features and components in our services.
Design and evolve public API endpoints with backward compatibility in mind, and contribute to architecture discussions for our services.
Improve performance and reliability: find latency and failure hotspots, add the observability needed to understand them, and fix them.
Take an active part in design and code review, and mentor mid-level engineers.
Work with product, solutions/support, and other engineering teams to understand customer needs and turn them into solid technical solutions
Take part in on-call for the systems you own, and lead incident response and follow-through when things break.
What we are looking for
Technical
Solid experience building and operating backend services in production, ideally high-traffic or low-latency ones.
Extensive Python knowledge (our primary language).
Hands-on experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and debugging performance issues in live systems.
Experience designing and evolving public APIs that external customers depend on.
Experience designing & implementing scalable service-oriented architectures.
Beyond the code
Track record of delivering projects end to end, including leading small efforts with other engineers.
Collaborative mindset: open to feedback, and willing to change your position when someone has a better argument.
Clear written communication - design docs, RFCs, postmortems.
Good judgment about trade-offs and scope.
Comfort with ambiguity and loosely defined problems.
Ownership that extends past merge, to how the system behaves in production.
Nice to have
Experience with AWS
Background in search, ranking, information retrieval, or e-commerce product discovery.
Exposure to AI/LLM-facing infrastructure (MCP, agent tooling, or similar).
Benefits
️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
Fully remote team - choose where you live
️ Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office
Apple laptops provided for new employees
Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees
Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact
Base salary: $80k–$120k USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results TBD
Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary
Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor
At Constructor.io we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group.
Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every one of the qualifications listed. Our primary interest is in finding the best candidate for the job. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of our listed qualifications.
How we handle your data. By submitting this application, you acknowledge that Constructor will collect and process the personal data you provide for the purpose of evaluating your candidacy for this role. If you are not selected, we will retain your data for a limited period as described in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. After that period your data will be deleted or anonymized.
How we handle your data. By submitting this application, you acknowledge that Constructor will collect and process the personal data you provide for the purpose of evaluating your candidacy for this role. If you are not selected, we will retain your data for a limited period as described in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. After that period your data will be deleted or anonymized.
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Who's Hiring
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in features editor jobs.
- Five or more years of editorial experience at a publication or content organization
- Demonstrated ability to edit long-form and feature-length written content
- Experience managing freelance writers and meeting production deadlines
- Proficiency with a content management system such as WordPress or a comparable platform
- Strong story development skills including pitching, assigning, and structural editing
- Bachelor's degree in journalism, English, communications, or a related field
Tips for Your Features Editor Job Search
Tailor your resume to editorial voice
Features editors are hired for judgment, not just output. Your resume should name the publication types you've edited, the story lengths you've handled, and the beats you've developed, not just list titles and dates.
Build a clips package that shows range
Hiring editors want to see that you can shape a 300-word brief and a 5,000-word narrative. Your portfolio should include at least one deeply reported piece and one fast-turn assignment to show you can work at both ends of the spectrum.
Target openings by publication type not just title
A features editor at a consumer lifestyle magazine and one at a B2B trade publication do very different work. Filter your search by industry vertical so you're applying to roles where your editorial background is a direct match.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists features editor openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a story pitch for your interview
Many features editor interviews include a live pitch exercise. Arrive with two or three concrete story ideas relevant to that publication's audience, with a source angle and a reason the story matters right now, not just a topic.
Negotiate scope not just salary
When you receive an offer, ask about the editorial calendar cycle, freelance budget authority, and how much autonomy you'll have over story assignments. These details define the actual job and are negotiable before you sign.
Features Editor Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most features editors?
The companies hiring the most features editors right now include Stellantis, CBR, and Apple, with the largest share of openings in California, Michigan, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Media companies, digital publishers, and content-driven brands tend to post the highest volume of features editor roles.
How many features editor jobs are remote?
About 80% of features editor openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the shift in editorial workflows toward distributed teams. Roles focused on digital-first publications and content studios tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while print-heavy mastheads more often require in-office presence.
How do you become a features editor?
Most features editors start as staff writers or associate editors, building a body of reported and edited work before moving into an editing role. From there, taking on freelance editing assignments, assisting with editorial planning, and demonstrating the ability to develop story ideas independently are the steps that typically lead to a features editor title. A strong portfolio of edited long-form pieces is what hiring editors look for most.
Can you get hired as a features editor without much experience?
Entry-level features editor roles do exist, particularly at digital publications and content studios that are scaling quickly. If your editing experience is limited, focus on roles with titles like associate features editor or assistant editor, and build your portfolio by editing pieces for smaller outlets, literary magazines, or independent publications. Showing clear structural edits on a few strong pieces matters more than volume.
What does the features editor interview process look like?
Most features editor interviews involve an initial screening call with a recruiter or managing editor, followed by a skills exercise that may include editing a draft piece, pitching story ideas, or both. Final rounds typically include conversations with senior editorial leadership and sometimes a presentation of your editorial vision for a section or vertical. The whole process usually unfolds across two to four rounds.
Where can I find and apply to features editor jobs?
You can find and apply to features editor jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your experience and editorial background, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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