4 days ago
Barcelona, SpainStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate personalization services delivering relevant content across Dow Jones products.
- Lead recommendation workflows from candidate generation and retrieval through filtering, scoring, reranking, and cold-start handling.
- Scale algorithmic improvements and ML-based ranking through model integration, feature development, evaluation, and tuning.
- Own technical design and production quality, including scalability, latency, observability, SLOs, incident response, and post-incident learning.
- Set engineering direction and standards through design documents, architecture decisions, code reviews, and team mentorship.
- Improve operational efficiency across infrastructure-as-code and containerized deployment workflows.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience focused on architecting and delivering high-performance distributed backend systems.
- Experience with TypeScript and Node.js is preferred.
- Experience as a technical lead or senior individual contributor owning architecture and guiding engineering teams.
- Experience designing and scaling recommendation and content-discovery systems is preferred.
- Experience designing and implementing production RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.
- Experience implementing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting, and supporting multi-region, multi-environment systems with high availability and disaster recovery.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, such as Terraform, and automated deployment tools.
- Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments.
- Experience using LLMs in production, such as for content labeling or embeddings; GenAI experience is a plus.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent working experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare plans for employees and families paid by Dow Jones.
- 30 days of paid holidays per year.
- Option to work remotely for three months per year or one week remotely per quarter.
- Meal benefit with Pluxee worth 171 EUR per month.
- Retirement contributions from Dow Jones of 2% of pensionable salary plus matching employee contributions up to 3%.
- Comprehensive insurance plans, wellbeing resources, family care benefits, caregiving support, subscription discounts, and an employee referral program.
- Barcelona-based role with a non-union employment status.
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About Dow Jones
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.