Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Content Platforms

Dow Jones; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

PTO 30 days

Meal vouchers

Retirement plan

Wellness resources

Education benefits

Family care

Subscription discounts

Employee referrals

Financial health

Cybersecurity protection

Job summary

Dow Jones is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Barcelona to modernize real-time news and content systems feeding Newswires, Factiva, and The Wall Street Journal. You will work with GenAI, AWS, and a suite of tooling to deliver scalable backend services.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of backend experience, strong Java/Linux background, and a track record building high-performance systems in a global, cross-cultural team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience.
• Experience delivering microservices in a service mesh environment.
• Experience designing and deploying RESTful APIs.
• Proficient in multi-region CI/CD and high availability architectures.
• Secure coding practices and vulnerability remediation.

Responsibilities

• Engage in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle to design, develop, test and deploy high quality solutions using Agile/Scrum.
• Build and maintain microservices in a service mesh with Kubernetes-based tooling.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to manage scope, milestones, and timelines on technical projects.
• Provide guidance and training to management and other stakeholders.

Skills

7+ years experience

Microservices in service mesh

RESTful APIs

CI/CD multi-region deployments

Secure coding practices

Agile/Scrum

Backend systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Istio

Envoy

Jaeger

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

GenAI

Terraform

Chef

Jenkins

JSON

XML

MySQL

Job description

Dow Jones is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Barcelona to modernize real-time news and content systems feeding Newswires, Factiva, and The Wall Street Journal. You will work with GenAI, AWS, and a suite of tooling to deliver scalable backend services.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of backend experience, strong Java/Linux background, and a track record building high-performance systems in a global, cross-cultural team.