Backend Search Engineer II — Semantics & Scale

dowjones; 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 Supp

Commuter Transit Program

Subscription Discounts

Employee Referral Program

Job summary

Dow Jones in New York is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Search team. You will design and build the search APIs, semantic and lexical systems that connect millions of users with the most 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. Collaboration with engineering, product, and QA teams ensures monitoring, observability, and

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience in backend or platform environments.
• Experience designing and scaling search or information retrieval systems, including embeddings and vector databases.
• Experience implementing RESTful APIs following industry standards.
• Experience implementing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting and supporting multi-region, multi-environment systems with CI/CD, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Chef) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerised deployments in production environments.
• Comfort adopting AI-assisted development workflows.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Backend development

Search systems

RESTful APIs

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Job description

Dow Jones in New York is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Search team. You will design and build the search APIs, semantic and lexical systems that connect millions of users with the most 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. Collaboration with engineering, product, and QA teams ensures monitoring, observability, and