Senior Software Engineer, NewsBreak

Android, AI-Native Client Platform

$118-212k

React

React Native

Android

Kotlin

Flutter

Senior and Expert 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

$118-212k

React

React Native

Android

Kotlin

Flutter

Senior and Expert 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

5+ years building Android apps at scale; deep Kotlin, Jetpack Compose
You’ve owned app-level architecture and lived with the consequences
You verify before you ship — including (especially) AI-generated code
Bonus: cross-platform experience (Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, or React Native) — our app matrix ships on both platforms
Bonus: developer tooling / CI quality gates that made a team measurably faster

What the job involves

We’re rebuilding how NewsBreak ships mobile software. An in-house auto-dev bot already lands reviewed PRs daily — most merged client PRs start from an agent
Engineers here don’t just write features: they design the architecture, conventions, and guardrails that let humans and AI build together safely, across our flagship app and a matrix of new products (Lite, short-drama, local).
This is a builder role with a dual mandate: roughly half your time advances the platform, half ships business impact — and the point is that the first keeps shrinking the cost of the second
Architect Android systems — from our flagship app to 0-to-1 new products — so every codebase stays legible to both engineers and AI agents
Drive modularization: extract shared capabilities so they ship once and run across apps
Ship user-facing features end-to-end — growth, feed, and new-app product needs — through the same AI-assisted workflow you’re improving: your platform work is measured by how much faster these ship
Set the quality bar for AI-assisted development: review standards, safety nets, release gates
Solve the hardest performance and production problems, and turn what you learn into playbooks the whole team builds on

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. What's more, it was voted one of the world's Best Workplaces for Innovators by Fast Company in 2025 and is rumoured to be gearing up for a 2026 or 27 IPo. If uptake and laurels continue, the company stands to grow substantially while helping reinvigorate a struggling and vital industry.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

10% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.4)

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 HQ

Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Jeff Zheng

(Founder & 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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