Overview

As Staff Software Engineer on the Search team in Barcelona, you will architect and implement real-time search APIs and semantic retrieval systems serving millions of users. You lead engineering decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Brand stakeholders to raise search quality. You'll embrace AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery and improve code quality. This role offers impact across products and platforms, shaping how users discover content at Dow Jones.

Compensaciones / Ventajas Healthcare plans for you and family

Extra paid time off (30 holidays/year)

Remote work options (up to 3 months/year or quarterly access)

Meal benefit with Pluxee

Retirement plans with employer contributions

Comprehensive insurance plans

Responsabilidades

Design, build, and operate Search APIs and semantic search systems delivering relevant content at scale

Lead semantic retrieval and ranking pipelines, including embeddings, vector indexing, and relevance tuning

Act as technical lead for the Search team, steering architecture decisions and engineering standards

Collaborate with Product Managers and Brand partners to define search quality goals and measure impact

Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance to foster learning

Champion AI coding agents (Claude Code and similar tools) to increase development velocity and quality





Manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Chef; maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins

Containerise and deploy services with Docker and Kubernetes for reliability and efficient releases

Own reliability and observability of Search services, define SLOs, dashboards, and incident processes

Drive improvements in engineering processes and developer experience via awareness of industry trends

Requisitos principales 8+ years of software engineering experience

Experience in designing and scaling search or information retrieval systems, including semantic search, embeddings, and vector databases

Experience building RESTful APIs

Experience with multi-region, multi-environment systems, CI/CD, high availability, and disaster recovery

Experience with Terraform and Chef (infrastructure-as-code) and Jenkins (CI/CD)

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production

Proven technical lead or senior individual contributor, guiding architecture and teams

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

Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows

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

Mentorship and coaching

Cross-functional collaboration with product and brand teams

Clear communication of complex engineering concepts

Semantic search

Embeddings and vector databases

RESTful APIs

📌 Staff Software Engineer, Search (Barcelona)
🏢 Dow Jones u0026
📍 Barcelona