Backend Engineer, Search & AI APIs

Dow Jones & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

Paid Time Off

Retirement Plans

Comprehensive Insurance Plans

Lifestyle programs & WellnessResources

Education Benefits

Family Care Benefits & Caregiving...

Commuter Transit Program

Subscription Discounts

Employee Referral Program

Job summary

Dow Jones & Co. in New York is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Search team.

You will design and build the search APIs, and the semantic and lexical search systems that connect millions of users with relevant content across our digital products. You will design, build, and own reliable backend services, APIs, and platform components, driving projects from planning through release with minimal oversight.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of professional software engineering experience in backend or platform environments.
• Experience designing and scaling search or information retrieval systems, including familiarity with embeddings and vector databases.
• Experience implementing RESTful APIs, multi-region/multi-environment systems with CI/CD, high availability and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own reliable, scalable backend services, APIs, and platform components, driving delivery from planning through release with minimal oversight.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and QA to translate requirements into technical solutions while improving monitoring, observability, and operational readiness for critical services.

Skills

Backend development

Search systems

REST APIs

Multi-region systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Chef

Jenkins

Job description

Dow Jones & Co. in New York is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Search team.

You will design and build the search APIs, and the semantic and lexical search systems that connect millions of users with relevant content across our digital products. You will design, build, and own reliable backend services, APIs, and platform components, driving projects from planning through release with minimal oversight.