Newsbreak

AI Engineer — AI-Native Product Engineering(frontend focus)

Mountain View, California, United States. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will build user-facing products end to end using AI as a core development tool. You will own features from frontend architecture through API integration and backend changes.

What you will do

  • Build user-facing products end to end.
  • Use AI as a core development tool.
  • Own frontend architecture and product quality.
  • Cross frontend/backend boundaries.
  • Set a high bar for AI-generated code.
  • Improve the AI-native engineering workflow.
  • Modernize existing systems.
  • Own production outcomes.

Required qualifications

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong depth in frontend or client-side product engineering
  • Strong JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals
  • Hands-on experience with React or a comparable modern frontend framework
  • Experience shipping meaningful user-facing features in production
  • Experience making frontend architecture decisions around components, state, data flow, performance, or testing
  • Evidence that you can work beyond the frontend layer
  • Hands-on use of modern AI coding tools or coding agents as part of real development work
  • Strong engineering fundamentals
  • Ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly
  • Strong product mindset

Nice to have

  • Experience building AI-native or agent-powered user experiences
  • Experience building or operating coding agents, LLM workflows, or developer productivity tools
  • Backend experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, or similar technologies
  • Experience with recommendation, feed, search, ads, growth, or other large-scale consumer products
  • Experience improving web performance, experimentation infrastructure, design systems, or CI/CD quality gates
  • Experience shipping 0→1 products in a small, highly autonomous team

About the company

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

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