Lead Software Engineer in BARCELONA, SpainAbout Our Organization:Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile, and live events.
Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally.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.Responsibilities:Understand and practice agile software development and management.Define and implement application architecture models and programming standards with direction setting support.Design and implement the developers', testing, application monitoring/control, change management, and implementation.Define application development standards for designing, building, and maintaining applications, application components, and common services.Partner effectively with product to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product roadmap.Identify areas of strategic technical debt and provide cost/benefit analysis for eliminating this debt.Core Requirements:Excellent verbal & written skills to interact and maintain effective relationships with peers.Strong analytical, problem-solving, and programming skills with high responsibility and care for details.Ability to identify and isolate problem areas within the entire application flow and implement solutions.Self-organized, working well independently and in a geographically diverse team environment.Initiative person with a positive mindset and creative thinking.Ability to design a good architecture for a new project as well as migrate legacy projects to new architecture.Ability to identify tech debts and code smells while working on a project.Required Skills/Experience:5+ years of experience in Front End development.Expert knowledge of the latest version of ReactJS, including the use of hooks and new features in React 18.Expert knowledge of HTML best practices, including semantic HTML and writing accessible markup.Expert knowledge of CSS, including vanilla CSS and writing CSS systems.Familiar with Webpack, Babel, npm, and GitHub.Experience with CSS-in-JS.Experience with component libraries or design systems.Experience with Storybook.Experience with Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA standards).Benefits:Comprehensive Healthcare PlansRetirement PlansFamily Care BenefitsEmployee Referral ProgramFitness reimbursement planReasonable Accommodation:Dow Jones is an equal opportunity employer.
We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups.Business Area:Dow Jones - TechnologyJob Category:Software Product EngineeringUnion Status:Non-Union role#J-18808-Ljbffr