Full-stack Software Engineer, NewsBreak
$125-221k
4 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
$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 in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Proven experience as a full-stack Engineer or similar role
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Golang
- Knowledge of libraries and frameworks (e.g., Scrapy, Beautiful Soup), ethics and compliance with website terms of service
- Familiarity with handling dynamic content, CAPTCHAs, and IP rotation
- Understanding of HTML, XPATH, CSS, and JavaScript for parsing web content
- Experience with database systems for storing and managing collected data
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
What the job involves
- Play a crucial role in developing and maintaining content system solutions that collect and process data from various sources
- Design, develop, and maintain content integration solutions to collect data from various sources
- Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to define data extraction requirements
- Monitor and troubleshoot content acquiring to ensure data accuracy and reliability
- Implement data validation and quality checks to ensure the integrity of collected data
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in web scraping and data extraction
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate integrated data into our products or services
- Identify and address related potential legal and ethical considerations
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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