Dow Jones

Senior Software Engineer, Backend and Data Platforms

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2 months ago
Barcelona, SpainSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own reliable, scalable backend services, APIs, and platform components.
  • Lead project delivery from planning through release with minimal oversight.
  • Improve the performance, reliability, monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational readiness of critical services.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and QA stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering standards while debugging complex technical issues.
  • Mentor junior engineers and serve as a go-to technical contributor for problem-solving.

Requirements

  • Require 4–6+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend or platform environments.
  • Require hands-on experience building production-grade backend systems and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and Python.
  • Require deep experience with AWS services, Linux environments, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
  • Require experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including Redis.
  • Require familiarity with data platforms and pipelines using Snowflake and modern data orchestration, transformation, and modeling practices.
  • Require strong problem-solving and communication skills, including the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences and connect technical work to business goals.

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 and caregiving support.
  • Subscription discounts, an employee referral program, financial health programs, and cybersecurity protection.

Tech Stack

AWSJavaLinuxPythonRedisSnowflakeSpring Boot

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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