Staff Software Engineer, Newsletter & Alerts Delivery Dow Jones is looking for a Staff Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for the high?volume delivery systems spanning email, mobile push notifications, SMS, and web alerts.
This role is essential for ensuring the reliable, scalable, and timely distribution of content from leading brands like The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch to millions of users.
As a Staff Engineer, you will set the technical direction for the platform, drive decisions that span multiple teams, and raise the engineering bar through your work and influence.
About the Team
Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, 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 across mobile, video, social and data platforms, collaborating closely with newsrooms and strategic partners to develop groundbreaking products and technologies.
Responsibilities
Drive the technical roadmap and architecture for high?scale messaging infrastructure (Email, Push, SMS), ensuring high availability, scalability and sound system design.
Serve as the platform SME for integrations (e.g., Braze, Airship, Sailthru), optimizing for targeting, personalization and deliverability.
Lead by example with hands?on engineering, contributing high?quality code to the team's most complex, high?risk initiatives.
Mentor and elevate the engineering team through active design/code reviews, technical guidance and clear documentation.
Partner with cross?functional leadership (Product,



Engineering, Infrastructure) to translate business needs into robust technical strategies.
Champion operational and engineering excellence, defining standards for testing, CI/CD, observability and resilient incident response.
Pioneer responsible AI?augmented development (e.g., Copilot, Claude), setting team practices that balance velocity with risk management.
Qualifications
7+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record at a senior or staff level delivering complex, high?traffic backend systems.
Deep AWS and Node.js proficiency, including practical experience designing, operating and defending scalable cloud architectures (e.g., Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB).
High?volume messaging expertise, with a strong technical understanding of email deliverability (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), native mobile push pipelines and SMS systems at scale.
Advanced system design skills, with a demonstrated ability to architect reliable, low?latency systems that handle millions of daily messages with graceful degradation.
Strong technical communication and influence, capable of writing clear design docs, articulating trade?offs to non?technical stakeholders and building alignment without authority.
Benefits




Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family (paid by Dow Jones)
Extra paid Time Off (30 days of holidays per year)
Possibility to work remotely for 3 months per year 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 member's 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
Equal Opportunity Employer
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.
Reasonable Accommodation
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in the application and interview process.
If you need assistance or accommodation, email us at ****** with the subject line "Reasonable Accommodation" and a brief description of the assistance you need.
Location: Hybrid remote/in?office role.
Business Area: Dow Jones - Technology.
Job Category: Software Product Engineering.
Union Status: Non?Union.
Base Pay Range: 70,000 € – 90,000 €.
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📌 Staff Software Engineer - Newsletter & Alerts Delivery (Madrid)
🏢 Dow Jones
📍 Madrid