Our Technology team drives the evolution of our 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. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Search team in New York.
You will design and build the search APIs, semantic and lexical search systems that connect millions of users with the most relevant content across our digital products.
You Will:
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.
You Have:
2-4 years of professional software engineering experience in backend or platform environments.
Experience designing and scaling search or information retrieval systems, including familiarity with semantic search, embeddings and vector databases.
Experience implementing RESTful APIs following industry standards.
Experience implementing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting and supporting multi-region, multi-environment systems with CI/CD, high availability and disaster recovery.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Chef) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerised deployments in production environments.
Comfort adopting AI-assisted development workflows.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience is preferred.
Our Benefits
Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plans
Comprehensive Insurance Plans
Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
Education Benefits
Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
Commuter Transit Program
Subscription Discounts
Employee Referral Program
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Business Area:
Dow Jones - TechnologyJob Category:
Software Product EngineeringUnion Status:
Non-Union roleBase Pay Range: $90,000 - $110,000
We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.
For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.
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.
Skills Required
- 2-4 years of professional software engineering experience in backend or platform environments
- Experience designing and scaling search or information retrieval systems
- Familiarity with semantic search, embeddings, and vector databases
- Experience implementing RESTful APIs following industry standards
- Experience implementing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting, and supporting multi-region, multi-environment systems
- Experience with CI/CD, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Chef
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for production containerized deployments
- Comfort adopting AI-assisted development workflows
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
What We Do
When you join Dow Jones, you become part of the most dynamic, creative and savvy news and information companies in the world. As a global leader in news and business intelligence, we're newswires, websites, newspapers, apps, newsletters, databases, magazines, and video --including some of the widest-read and most-respected brands, like The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource. Our products inform the discussions and decisions that are vital to the world's commerce, while our databases make the business world more transparent. We continually develop technology to transform information into insight and prosperity. We enlighten and inspire audiences around the globe with authoritative, differentiated and trusted content.
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