Software Engineer Intern, NewsBreak
Summer 2024
$30—$45 USD per hour
1-5 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Local breaking news app
Job no longer available
Local breaking news app
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$30—$45 USD per hour
1-5 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
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD program in Computer Science or related fields. Must be in the last year of your program
- Experience with software development processes
- Strong programming skills in one of the major programming languages Python, Java, C++. etc
- Experience in conducting research and data analysis
- Strong communication, teamwork, and leadership skills
What the job involves
- We are hiring interns for Summer 2024 across our Engineering department
- This is a 10-12 week paid internship beginning in May/June, must be able to work on-site in our Mountain View, CA or Bellevue, WA office
- Highlighted projects include:
- 1. AI Generated Ads project (Bellevue, WA):
- Enhance the NewsBreak ads targeting by rendering ads to feed the predictive ML models
- Develop an Ads Blocker tool with Selenium to improve ticket handling efficiency by applying your web automation skills
- 2. Content service project (Mountain View, CA):
- Upgrade NewsBreak's publisher portal by designing and implementing the backend system with publisher onboarding, verification, payment and data management features
- Build a scalable backend system from ground up to enable content ingestion and management of overall NewsBreak content system
- 3. MSP Monetization project (Mountain View, CA):
- Explore and implement automation for Ads A/B test
- Lead an exploratory project to conduct MSP Ads testing for all scenarios
- 4. Newsletter project (Mountain View, CA):
- Develop an internal service tool from the ground up to automate the processing of Newsletter user subscriptions and streamline troubleshooting processes
- Enhance Newsletter deliverability by implementing a fault-tolerant scheduler
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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.
Insights
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
Founders
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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