NewsBreak Venture, AI Growth Intelligence Engineer (New Grad）

The role

This engineer will build and maintain pipelines and services for the ads platform, recommendation systems, and revenue tools. You will work at the intersection of backend engineering, ML infrastructure, and revenue systems.

What you will do

• Build instrumentation and monitoring systems to track performance signals.
• Contribute to backend services and dashboards for engagement and retention metrics.
• Build tooling to surface friction in the user journey.
• Support experimentation infrastructure for product changes.
• Contribute to recommendation algorithms and services.
• Build data infrastructure including feature pipelines and training datasets.
• Instrument personalization systems to measure impact.
• Build and maintain components of data pipelines and services.
• Write code to transform raw data into datasets and APIs.
• Contribute to data architecture for ad-tech, paywalls, and subscriptions.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (recent grad or up to ~2 years of experience)
• Solid software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and basic system design
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (Python, Java, Scala, or Go)
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Coursework, academic projects, or internship experience involving data pipelines, backend services, or applied software systems
• Basic understanding of A/B testing and experimental design principles

Nice to have

• Exposure to distributed data processing concepts (Spark, Hive, or similar)

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family (100% coverage for employee)
• Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• FSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs
• Team activity budget

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. It includes platforms like Nearby AI and NDot AI.