Dow Jones

Software Engineer II, Search

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20 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$90k - $110k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own reliable, scalable backend services, APIs, search systems, and platform components.
  • Drive project delivery from planning through release with minimal oversight.
  • Design and scale semantic and lexical search or information retrieval systems serving digital products.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and QA stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational readiness for critical services.
  • Implement, test, deploy, troubleshoot, and support multi-region, multi-environment systems.
  • Use infrastructure-as-code tools, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes for production deployments.

Requirements

  • 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience in backend or platform environments.
  • Experience designing and scaling search or information retrieval systems, including semantic search, embeddings, and vector databases.
  • Experience implementing RESTful APIs following industry standards.
  • Experience with multi-region, multi-environment systems, CI/CD, high availability, and disaster recovery.
  • Experience with Terraform, Chef, and Jenkins.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Comfort adopting AI-assisted development workflows.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare and insurance plans.
  • Paid time off and retirement plans.
  • Lifestyle programs, wellness resources, education benefits, and family care and caregiving support.
  • Commuter transit program, subscription discounts, and employee referral program.
  • The position is based in New York.
  • Base pay range is $90,000–$110,000, with additional benefits and potential bonus eligibility described by the employer.

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About Dow Jones

10,000+ employees

Dow Jones provides news, market data, and risk/compliance information for consumers and enterprises through brands and platforms such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Factiva, OPIS, and Dow Jones Risk & Compliance. Its business model spans consumer subscriptions, enterprise licensing, advertising, and data services used by financial institutions, corporations, and investors. Founded in 1882 and headquartered in New York, it is a subsidiary of News Corp.

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