Staff Software Engineer - Personalization & Content Discovery

Dow Jones Company; Bellprat; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

Extra paid time off

Remote work 3 months/year

Meal benefit

Retirement plans

Insurance plans

Well-being resources

Family care benefits

Subscription discounts

Referral program

Job summary

Dow Jones is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Personalization team in Barcelona. You will define the technical direction for core services, overseeing candidate retrieval, scoring, ranking, and business logic across multiple Dow Jones surfaces.

You will translate complex requirements into reliable systems, mentor engineers, and drive architecture decisions, code reviews, and production quality. This senior IC role reports to the Engineering Director.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering focusing on architecting distributed backends (TypeScript/Node.js preferred).
• Technical lead or senior IC owning architecture and guiding teams.
• Production RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.
• Multi-region, multi-environment systems with CI/CD, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform) and automated deployment.
• Docker and Kubernetes for production deployments.
• LLMs in production; GenAI experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate personalization services delivering relevant content across Dow Jones products.
• Lead evolution of personalization workflows from candidate generation to ranking and surface-specific logic.
• Scale algorithmic improvements and ML-based ranking, including model integration and feature development.
• Own technical design and production quality, including scalability, latency, observability, SLOs, incident response, and post-incident learning.
• Set engineering direction and standards through design docs, architecture decisions, code reviews, and mentorship.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and containerized deployments; leverage AI-assisted developer tools where appropriate.

Skills

Distributed backend systems

Technical leadership

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

CI/CD & IaC

Docker & Kubernetes

LLMs in production

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Dow Jones is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Personalization team in Barcelona. You will define the technical direction for core services, overseeing candidate retrieval, scoring, ranking, and business logic across multiple Dow Jones surfaces.

You will translate complex requirements into reliable systems, mentor engineers, and drive architecture decisions, code reviews, and production quality. This senior IC role reports to the Engineering Director.