Software Engineer II, Search
NEW YORK, NYFull-timeSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Dow Jones is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Search team in New York. The role focuses on designing and building search APIs, semantic and lexical search systems, and reliable backend services that connect users with relevant content. The engineer will drive projects from planning through release and collaborate with engineering, product, and QA stakeholders to improve critical services.
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Dow Jones & Co. Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world's top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Financial News. This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day. If you are a current employee at Dow Jones, do not apply here. Please go to the Career section on your Workday homepage and view "Find Jobs - Dow Jones." Thank you. Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. 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 [email protected]. Please put Reasonable Accommodation in the subject line. NYC - 1155 Ave of the Americas Full timeJob_Req_55287 Job Description:Evergreen pipeline About the Team: 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
How this job compares
Set against the 39,918 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New York median$158–225K/yr2,232 salary ranges
- New York median$50–57/hr59 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,857 open Software Engineer jobs in New York and 39,918 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 32,890 postings).
- Education
- 12,459 of the 39,918 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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