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.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Personalization team in Barcelona. 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.

Design, build, and operate personalization services that deliver relevant content across Dow Jones products.

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.

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.
- 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. Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent working experience.

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

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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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.

📌 Senior Staff Software Engineer - Fully Remote (Barcelona)
🏢 Dow Jones
📍 Barcelona