Backend Software Engineer, NewsBreak
$147-221k
3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Local breaking news app
Open for applications
Local breaking news app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$147-221k
3+ 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 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.
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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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