Dow Jones

Staff Engineer - Data and Backend Platforms

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20 hours ago
Barcelona, SpainStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and delivery of scalable, reliable data platforms and pipelines.
  • Set technical direction and influence architecture decisions across data systems, storage, transformation, and serving layers.
  • Improve data quality, reliability, maintainability, and system performance by addressing systemic issues.
  • Lead complex and ambiguous cross-team technical initiatives with significant hands-on engineering work.
  • Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and improve team effectiveness through structured problem-solving.
  • Build alignment with engineering, product, analytics, business stakeholders, and executive audiences.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional experience in software or data engineering, including meaningful experience at staff scope.
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake data lakes and modern data orchestration using dbt and Airflow.
  • Deep experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, Kinesis, ECS, SNS, SQS, and Lambda.
  • Very strong programming and query skills in SQL, Java with Spring Boot, and Python.
  • Experience designing REST APIs and GraphQL services and managing relational and NoSQL databases in high-scale systems.
  • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, release automation, system design, platform engineering, software architecture, security, performance, and maintainability for large-scale data environments.
  • Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, balance hands-on engineering with strategic direction, and influence decisions across business units.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare plans for employees and families.
  • 30 days of paid time off per year.
  • Meal vouchers, retirement plans, lifestyle programs, and wellness resources.
  • Education benefits and family-care benefits and caregiving support.
  • Subscription discounts, an employee referral program, financial health programs, and cybersecurity protection.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSdbtGraphQLJavaPythonSnowflakeSpring BootSQL

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Dow Jones

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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