3 months ago
Base Salary
$135k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build instrumentation and monitoring systems for performance signals such as load times, stream quality, and error rates across web, app, and live-stream experiences.
- Develop backend services, dashboards, and tooling for engagement, retention, user-journey friction, and experimentation analysis.
- Contribute to recommendation algorithms, personalization services, feature pipelines, training datasets, feedback loops, and production model serving.
- Build and maintain data pipelines and services processing large-scale ads, user-event, and engagement data.
- Transform raw data into reliable analysis-ready datasets and APIs using SQL, Python, PySpark, or similar technologies.
- Support data architecture for ad-tech integrations, paywall flows, subscription checkout, data-quality checks, alerting, and operational reporting.
- Contribute to commission-calculation, sales-quota, and commission-simulation tools with a focus on accuracy, reliability, and auditability.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, content, marketing, sales, Finance, and platform teams to ship scalable, observable, and well-documented systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; candidates should be recent graduates or have up to approximately two years of experience.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and basic system design.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, Scala, or Go, plus working knowledge of SQL.
- Coursework, academic projects, or internship experience involving data pipelines, backend services, or applied software systems.
- Exposure to distributed data processing concepts such as Spark or Hive is preferred but not required.
- Basic understanding of A/B testing and experimental design principles.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Full-time position.
- Health, dental, and vision care for employees and families, with 100% employee coverage.
- 401(k) plan with company matching.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits programs.
- Team activity budget.
- May be eligible for discretionary bonus and options.
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About NewsBreak
NewsBreak builds a local-news aggregation and discovery platform for U.S. consumers on web and mobile, powered by recommendation systems and NLP. It partners with publishers and independent creators and monetizes primarily through advertising for local and national businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the platform serves over 40 million monthly active users and aggregates content from more than 10,000 sources.