NewsBreak Venture, AI Growth Intelligence Engineer (New Grad）

About this role

NewsBreak seeks a junior software engineer to join its Corporate Ventures & AI Operations team, working on backend systems, ML infrastructure, and revenue operations. You'll develop data pipelines, recommendation engines, and monitoring tools that drive user retention and monetization across a platform with 40M+ monthly active users.

What you'll do

• Build instrumentation and monitoring systems to track performance signals (load times, error rates) across web, app, and live streams
• Develop backend services and dashboards for engagement metrics like session length, scroll depth, and retention
• Contribute to recommendation algorithms and data infrastructure (feature pipelines, training datasets) supporting personalization at scale
• Engineer data pipelines and ETL jobs to process ads, user events, and engagement data using SQL, Python, or PySpark
• Support commission calculation systems and revenue operations tooling for the ad sales team
• Build alerting and automated checks for data quality, ads performance anomalies, and system health

What they're looking for

• Python or PySpark
• SQL
• Backend/API development
• Data pipeline engineering
• System monitoring and instrumentation
• Machine learning infrastructure
• Code testing and documentation
• Cross-functional collaboration

Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Mountain View, California
• Opportunity to work on AI and recommendation systems at scale
• Great Place to Work® certified company
• High-growth unicorn environment (reached unicorn status in 2021)
• Access to innovative content intelligence platform
• Mentorship from senior engineers

Likely interview questions

• Walk us through a data pipeline or backend project you've built—what technical challenges did you face and how did you solve them?
• How would you approach designing a system to monitor user engagement metrics like session length and scroll depth?