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.