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Staff Software Engineer, Personalization

Hybrid in Barcelona·Added yesterday (last checked 10 Nov)

Dow Jones

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Our summary

Salary: €70,000 - €90,000 a year
About €3,950 - €4,870 a month after tax, or €4,110 - €5,380 under the Beckham regime.
Work mode: Hybrid, Barcelona
English: Required
Experience: 7+ years
Education: University degree
Benefits: Flexible pay plan

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Requirements

What we're looking for

7+ years of experience in software engineering, focused on architecting and delivering high-performance, distributed backend systems (TypeScript and Node.js preferred).
Demonstrated 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).
Proven experience designing and implementing production RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.
Experience implementing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting and supporting multi-region, multi-environment systems with CI/CD, high availability and disaster recovery.
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and automated deployment tools.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerised deployments in production environments.
Experience using LLMs in production, such as for content labeling or embeddings. GenAI experience is a plus, not a requirement.
Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent working experience.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family (paid by Dow Jones)
Extra paid Time Off (30 days of holidays/year)
Possibility to work remotely for 3 months/year (desplazamiento program) or one week of remote work per quarter
Meal benefit with Pluxee (171€/month on top of your salary)
Retirement Plans (Dow Jones will pay 2% of a members Pensionable Salary and match employee contribution up to a maximum of 3 %).
Comprehensive Insurance Plans
Well-being Resources (200 USD allowance per quarter, Classpass, etc.)
Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
Subscription Discounts
Employee Referral Program (2,500 USD for referring a talent)

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Base Pay Range: 70,000 € - 90,000 € + Bonus

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.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

The role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Personalization team in Barcelona. In this role, you will define the technical direction for core personalization services, overseeing everything from candidate retrieval and scoring to ranking and surface-specific business logic. You will translate complex user and business requirements into highly reliable systems and measurable improvements in content discovery. This is a senior individual contributor role combining hands-on technical execution, architectural leadership, and team mentorship, reporting into the Engineering Director.

What you'll do

Design, build, and operate personalization services that deliver relevant content across Dow Jones products.
Lead the evolution of personalization and recommendation workflows, from candidate generation and retrieval through filtering, scoring, reranking and cold-start.
Scale algorithmic improvements and ML-based ranking, including 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 mentorship.
Enhance operational efficiency across CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and containerized deployments, leveraging AI-assisted developer tools where appropriate.

About Dow Jones

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, best known for The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and professional information services like Factiva and Dow Jones Risk & Compliance. Founded in 1882, the company serves financial, corporate, and media clients worldwide, with a strong focus on data-driven journalism, financial analytics, and risk management solutions. With a workforce of several thousand employees, Dow Jones operates across major financial hubs globally, delivering critical news and data to professionals and consumers.

In Spain, Dow Jones maintains a significant presence, particularly in Barcelona, where it operates a major office focused on editorial, data, and technology roles. The company's Spanish operations are integral to its global risk and compliance data services, as well as product and engineering teams. For international professionals, Dow Jones offers a multicultural work environment, opportunities to work on global products, and a strong emphasis on innovation and data accuracy. The Barcelona office is part of a global network, providing a dynamic setting for career growth in a leading media and information company.

Industry: News and Business Information
Founded: 1882
Employees: 5,000–10,000
Headquarters: New York, USA
In Spain: Barcelona

Good to know if you are moving

Dow Jones has a major office in Barcelona, which is a hub for risk and compliance data operations, offering roles in editorial, data, and technology.
The company provides a global work environment with opportunities to collaborate with teams across the US, Europe, and Asia.
International hires may benefit from Spain's growing tech ecosystem and Barcelona's attractive lifestyle, with a mix of local and expat communities.
Dow Jones offers professional development programs and a strong emphasis on data accuracy and innovation, which can be valuable for career growth.
The company supports a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility between office and remote work, which can ease the relocation process.

In their own words

About the company & team

The Personalization team builds recommendation, contextual suggestion, and related-content discovery experiences across Dow Jones digital surfaces. We combine reader activity, editorial priorities, trending content, and semantic similarity to deliver timely, relevant, and diverse journalism to our audience. We partner closely across Product, Data Analytics, Platform Engineering, and Editorial teams to create engaging, impactful experiences for millions of readers.

Additional information

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application or participating in an interview due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

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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).

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