Software Web Engineer, NewsBreak
$125-221k
4+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Local breaking news app
Posted today
Local breaking news app
201-500 employees
Posted today
$125-221k
4+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
201-500 employees
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.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with at least 2 years of experience in web crawling and data collection
- Proficiency in mainstream web scraping technologies and frameworks/tools such as Scrapy, Selenium, and Puppeteer
- Strong coding skills in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, Go, or C++
- Solid understanding of web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS)
- Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, and storage solutions is a plus
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Familiarity with frontend development and dynamic content rendering techniques is preferred
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer-Web, you will play a pivotal role in building and optimizing our data acquisition infrastructure, ensuring the seamless collection and processing of web data to support critical business needs
- You will tackle complex technical challenges in web crawling, enhance the performance of large-scale distributed systems, and contribute to the development of innovative solutions that drive our data-driven decision-making processes
- If you are passionate about web technologies, data extraction, and system optimization, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact
- Design, develop, and maintain distributed web crawler systems, ensuring efficient data scheduling, scraping, parsing, and storage
- Collect and process data from the internet and partner sources in compliance with website policies and legal regulations
- Optimize crawler performance to handle large-scale data extraction with high efficiency and reliability
- Solve complex technical challenges related to web crawling, including anti-crawling mechanisms, dynamic content rendering, and data quality assurance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers, to meet diverse business data requirements
- Stay updated with the latest web technologies and crawling frameworks to continuously improve system capabilities
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
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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
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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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