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Staff Software Engineer, Search

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Dow Jones

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What they offer

  • €70,000 - €90,000 a year

    Gross, as stated in the ad.

    About €3,950 - €4,870 a month after tax, or €4,110 - €5,380 under the Beckham regime.

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

  • Blue Card threshold

    Indicative — the ad doesn’t promise sponsorship.

What they ask for

  • Be near Barcelona for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have 8+ years of experience

    Staff-level role.

The role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Search team in Barcelona. You will design and build the search APIs, semantic and lexical search systems that connect millions of users with the most relevant content across our digital products.

You will serve as a technical lead for the Search team, setting engineering direction, driving architectural decisions and mentoring engineers. You will partner closely with Product and Brand stakeholders to continuously improve the search experience for our users. The ideal candidate is comfortable embracing AI-assisted development - leveraging tools such as Claude Code and other coding agents to accelerate delivery and raise the quality bar across the team.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate Search APIs and semantic search systems that deliver highly relevant content to millions of users in real time.

  • Lead the development of semantic retrieval and ranking pipelines, including embedding generation, vector indexing, and relevance tuning.

  • Act as technical lead for the Search team - driving architecture decisions, authoring technical design documents, and setting engineering standards.

  • Collaborate with Product Managers and Brand partners to understand search quality goals, translate them into engineering initiatives and measure their impact.

  • Mentor and grow engineers on the team through code reviews, pair programming and technical guidance, fostering a culture of continuous learning.

  • Champion the use of AI coding agents (Claude Code and similar tools) to accelerate development velocity and improve code quality across the team.

  • Manage and evolve infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Chef, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins.

  • Containerise and deploy services using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring efficient resource utilisation, high availability and smooth releases.

  • Own reliability and observability of Search services - define SLOs, build dashboards, and lead incident response and post-mortems.

  • Demonstrate knowledge of industry trends, technologies and tools, and drive improvements to engineering processes and developer experience across the team.

Reasonable Accommodation

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Requirements

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.

  • Experience designing and scaling search or information retrieval systems, including familiarity with semantic search, embeddings and vector databases.

  • Experience implementing RESTful APIs following industry standards.

  • Experience implementing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting and supporting multi-region, multi-environment systems with CI/CD, high availability and disaster recovery.

  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Chef) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).

  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerised deployments in production environments.

  • Demonstrated experience as a technical lead or senior individual contributor, owning architecture and guiding engineering teams.

  • Experience collaborating with product managers and brand stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

  • Comfort adopting AI-assisted development workflows.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is preferred.

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)

Learn more about us and our benefits click here .

Base Pay Range: 70,000 € - 90,000 €

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.

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
Website
dowjones.com

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

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

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: 55124

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.

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