Description
The Personalization team at Dow Jones builds recommendation, contextual suggestion, and related-content discovery experiences across digital surfaces. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Barcelona, defining the technical direction for core personalization services, translating complex user and business requirements into reliable systems, and leading the evolution of personalization and recommendation workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate personalization services that deliver relevant content across Dow Jones products.
- Lead the evolution of personalization and recommendation workflows, from candidate generation and retrieval through filtering, scoring, reranking and cold-start.
- Scale algorithmic improvements and ML-based ranking, including model integration, feature development, evaluation, and tuning.
- 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.
Requirements:
- 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.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., 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. GenAI experience is a plus, not a requirement.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent working experience.
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)