Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description:
About Us
OPIS, a Dow Jones company, is one of the world’s most comprehensive sources for petroleum pricing and news information. OPIS provides real-time and historical spot, wholesale/rack and retail fuel prices for the refined products, renewable fuels and natural gas and gas liquids (LPG) industries. We deliver award-winning news, market intelligence and transparency to the entire refined energy marketplace and companies looking to go carbon neutral. At its core, OPIS uses a set of complex IT systems and tools, handling huge amounts of data in a reliable way, and providing customers with business applications to use this data as efficiently as possible.
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.
Your Role
Are you an analytical thinker and passionate about problem solving? 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. To fit this role, we are looking for that unique mix of solid technical capabilities, blended with strong interpersonal skills.
This is a remote role and will report to the Associate Director of Software Engineering
Your Responsibilities
As an experienced and 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.
Responsibilities
? 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 our latest software development life-cycle, working closely with team members from Romania and US
? Use our Cloud infrastructure (AWS) in order to design solutions that make the best of it
? Maintain existing legacy applications
? Track down and resolve bugs in any OPIS codebase
? Adhere to best practice development standards (such as continuous integration and deployment)
Your Skills
? Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related technical field
? More than 4 years experience hands on Software Development
? 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
? Degrees, Certifications, and/or awards/recognition that you have achieved
? Knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodology and/or SCRUM
? Experience working with scripts under source control (Git/TFVC/Mercurial/Svn/etc)
? Experience being part of a continuous integration and deployment process
? Experience using database monitoring tools (like tools from SolarWinds or RedGate)
Current Colleagues
If you are currently employed by Dow Jones, please apply internally via the Workday internal careers site.
Our Benefits
? Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
? Paid Time Off
? Retirement Plans
? Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
? Education Benefits
? Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
? Family Care Benefits
? Commuter Transit Program
? 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. 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 and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.
Business Area: Dow Jones – OPIS

Job Category: Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $50,000 – $180,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company.As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates.The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate’s experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including “elective” benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..

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.

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Req ID: 40776