Lead Software Engineer

Dow Jones Barcelona

This role is within the Dow Jones Platform Team, responsible for building next-gen web, mobile and AI platforms for premium Dow Jones brands across our B2C and B2B portfolio. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate with a team of engineers, product managers, and product designers to define, architect, and build the platform that will drive product innovation across Dow Jones.

Lead Software Engineers focus on designing, architecting, building and ensuring the delivery of applications and services to the business. They continuously strive to improve the release and development processes to ensure reliable and high quality products. They champion the product scalability, usability, reliability, functionality and performance-related aspects of the system. They scale themselves by delegating effectively to ensure tasks are completed as specified. They are proactive in identifying and clearing roadblocks for the team.

• Define and implement application architecture models and programming standards with direction setting support.

• Analyze complex technological problems and present solutions that span across multiple engineering teams

• Partner effectively with product to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product roadmap

• Successfully collaborate with engineers across Dow Jones and News Corp to build out products and leverage shared technologies

• Handle and oversee deployments to production environments

• Design and implement the developers', testing, application monitoring/control, change management and implementation.

• Defines application development standards for designing, building and maintaining applications, application components, and common services including the recommended use of languages and tools.

• Be able to identify areas of strategic technical debt and provide cost/benefit analysis for eliminating this debt and suggested timelines for how to prioritize it

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Base Pay Range: 65,000 EUR - 75,000 EUR

We're committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate's experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest newsgathering operations globally.

It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance and Dow Jones Newswires. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

Req ID: 55216