Staff Software Engineer, Personalization

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Job Description: About the Team The Personalization team builds recommendation, contextual suggestion, and related-content discovery experiences across Dow Jones digital surfaces. We combine reader activity, editorial priorities, trending content, and semantic similarity to deliver timely, relevant, and diverse journalism to our audience. We partner closely across Product, Data Analytics, Platform Engineering, and Editorial teams to create engaging, impactful experiences for millions of readers. About the Role We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Personalization team in Barcelona. In this role, you will define the technical direction for core personalization services, overseeing everything from candidate retrieval and scoring to ranking and surface-specific business logic. You will translate complex user and business requirements into highly reliable systems and measurable improvements in content discovery. This is a senior individual contributor role combining hands-on technical execution, architectural leadership, and team mentorship, reporting into the Engineering Director. You Will • Design, build, and operate personalization services that deliver relevant…