Lead Software Engineer, Dow Jones

• To fit this role, we are looking for that unique mix of solid technical capabilities, blended with strong interpersonal skills
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related technical field
• 4+ years hands-on software development experience
• Strong knowledge of OOP principles
• Strong knowledge of C# and Microsoft .NET framework
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Good understanding of a relational database engine - SQL Server (or PostgreSQL)
• Experience with modern software development life-cycle

• We architect and design for high-availability, scalable, and fault tolerant systems that are decoupled and easy-to-maintain
• A core part of our development philosophy revolves around microservices and the DevOps model
• All new products are developed as microservices, with a focus on cloud native development and containers deployed on Container as a Service (CaaS) container management systems
• The developers on our teams subscribe to a DevOps model where time to market (TTM) is a vital measure that we are constantly striving to improve
• Quality is imperative and SQA is considered a part of the development process
• As such, automated unit testing, regression, and integration tests are considered a key part of reaching our TTM goals
• This is a unique opportunity to join a passionate team focused on delivering high quality products to a critical section of the economy
• This team is tasked with building and maintaining core systems used by our customer base around the world
• As an experienced and solution-oriented Lead Software Engineer your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Working with our product teams to provide timely, effective and performant solutions; contributing to the design of scalable data solutions, including the development of automated pipelines
• Implementing and/or maintaining database systems to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our application suite
• Understand and define business data requirements and identify data needs and data sources to create scalable data architecture and support enhancements, new product and implementation
• You will be a leader coaching, mentoring, and training team members driving both employee and team development and growth
• Write, build and deploy code
• Analyze business application requirements, identify concerns and develop action plans
• Be part of an Agile team, leading the development team, using company's latest software development life-cycle, working closely with team members from Romania and US
• Leverage our Cloud infrastructure (AWS) in order to design solutions that make the best of it
• Maintains existing legacy applications
• Track down and resolve bugs in any OPIS code base
• Adhere to best practice development standards (such as continuous integration and deployment)

Dow Jones is a global leader in news and business intelligence, powering a range of well-respected brands, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial News, MarketWatch, and more. The company delivers its content to consumers through a range of formats, such as print, digital, mobile, and live events.