Backend Software Engineer, NewsBreak

$147-221k

Python

Java

Golang

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)

Local breaking news app

Open for applications

Local breaking news app

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligencePublishingDigital MediaMedia

Open for applications

$147-221k

Python

Java

Golang

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligencePublishingDigital MediaMedia

Company mission

To connect and empower local users, local content creators, and local businesses at scale, with the goal of helping people everywhere live safer, more vibrant, more truly connected lives.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or relevant field with minimum 3 years of experience as a Back-end developer
In-depth understanding of the entire web application process (design, development, and deployment)
Hands-on experience with programming languages Golang, Java, and Python
Excellent analytical, problem-solving and time management skills
Teamwork skills with a humble, can-do attitude

What the job involves

As a backend engineer, you’ll be instrumental in establishing and maintaining the system infrastructure that drives the success of our billion-dollar business, ensuring its stability, scalability and high performance
Your work will boost the success of various projects and contribute to our continued growth and success
Develop and maintain functional and stable server applications to meet our company’s needs
Gather and address technical and design requirements
Write clean code to develop functional backend service
Troubleshoot and debug applications
Perform UI tests to optimize performance
Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
Collaborate with product team, data team, business team and to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Our take

News aggregation apps often focus on big global stories, but local news can easily get buried. NewsBreak exists to change this situation, using an AI-powered aggregator to connect readers with content creators who report on matters a little closer to home.

NewsBreak stands out with its focus on local news, which is beneficial for users who are looking for more relevant content than can be served by national and global publishers, and with smaller scale press companies which have been suffering financially for decades.

This focus seems to have paid off: NewsBreak has over 50 million users across the US and its app has topped the US Apple App Store and Google Play repeatedly. If uptake continues as it has to date, the company stands to grow substantially while helping reinvigorate a struggling and vital industry.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

10% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.1)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jan 2021

$115m

SERIES C

Sep 2019

$14.8m

SERIES B

Total funding: $139.8m

Company benefits

Work from home opportunities
Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
Paid time off and paid holidays
Paid parental leave
FSA and commuter benefit programs
Team activity budget

Company values

Results matter
Growth mindset
Strive for excellence
Fight as one
User obsession
Strategic, long-term thinking

Company HQ

Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA

Articles

Local news app News Break raises $115M

News Break Raises $115 Million as Local Media Leadership Grows

What we lose when local news disappears

Report: Paytm Turning to Banks to Process UPI Transactions

NewsBreak Becomes the First App IAB Tech Lab Open Measurement Certified Using Prebid Integration

Antoine Maurice King Founder of Spate Media Joins Newsbreak as an Official Contributor

Leadership

Jeff Zheng

(CEO)

Having undertaken a PhD at the University at Buffalo, Jeff spent over 7 years at Yahoo!, prior to founding Yidianzixun, where he worked as CEO. He left this role in April 2015 to found NewsBreak, serving as CEO since.

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