About NewsBreak
Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.
Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.
Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.
If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about
About the Role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
We offer competitive benefits package:
- 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 benefits programs
- Team activity budget
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NewsBreak Mountain View, California, USA Office
Mountain View, CA , United States, 94040
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