Senior Software Engineer

About us:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organisations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivalled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Team:

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, 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 revolutionising visuals to optimising 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 touch points. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

About the Role

Our engineering teams' guiding principle and its philosophy have always been to get things right through practising disciplined engineering, not cutting corners, and of course having fun while we are at it. We believe in enabling ownership at all levels of the organisation and empowering teams. If this culture is for you, you will learn a lot while enjoying everyday and staying abreast with cutting-edge industry technologies and practices collaborating in a high performing engineering team.

The Professional Information Business Engineering Team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer based in Barcelona, who will manage the development, integration, support and maintenance of content processing and editorial applications and ensure that they follow established software development lifecycle best practices . We are looking for creative and passionate engineers who want to be hands-on, design, implement and own code all the way through deployment and in production.

You Will:

• Play an essential role in all stages of the product life cycle, take ownership and have the initiative for building new software and ensure existing is functioning
• Handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end
• Lead technical discussions and lead technical decisions covering their responsibilities
• Understand and practice Agile software development and management
• Build rigorous load, stress and performance unit tests before deploying software
• Join a functional, collaborative fun, team
• Work with the latest technologies

You Have:

• At least 3 years designing, developing, and deploying backend applications
• .Net Framework with C# in building robust applications including asynchronous programming, queuing, caching, logging, xml/json serialisation and security
• Troubleshooting middle-tier and database applications
• Experience with SQL Server with T-SQL and stored procedures, focusing on transactions, ACID compliance, data normalisation, and query optimisation
• Competent in data access from .NET using ORM (Entity Framework or Dapper) and direct queries
• Proficiency writing unit, functional, performance, soak, and stress tests
• Familiarity or interest in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Chef)
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes and AWS or Azure
• Knowledge of designing RESTful JSON APIs

Our 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)
• 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.)
• Education Benefits
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at . Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.