# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: Dow Jones
**Location**: Barcelona, Spain
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 45,000 € - 65,000 €
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate reliable, scalable backend services and platform capabilities that power product experiences, internal tools, and business-critical workflows.

You will lead the development of complex features and systems, improve the performance, reliability, and observability of critical services, and work closely with cross-functional partners to deliver high-impact solutions.

Responsibilities:

- Design & Build: Design, build, and own reliable, scalable backend services, APIs, and platform components, driving the delivery of projects from planning through release with minimal oversight.

- Collaborate & Optimize: Partner closely with engineering, product, and QA stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions while improving monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational readiness for critical services.

- Mentor & Lead: Act as a go-to technical contributor for debugging and problem-solving, contributing to architecture decisions and engineering standards, and raising team effectiveness by mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements:

- 4–6+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend or platform environments.

- Strong hands-on experience building production-grade backend systems and APIs with proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and Python.

- Deep experience with AWS services, Linux environments, CI/CD pipelines, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.

- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis) and familiarity with data platforms and pipelines.

- Familiarity with Data platforms and pipelines using Snowflake and modern data orchestration, transformation, and modeling practices.

- Strong problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to adapt messaging for technical and non-technical audiences and connect technical work to business goals.

Benefits:

- 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)

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Python
- AWS
- Linux
- CI/CD
- Snowflake
- Redis

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