SmartNews
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How SmartNews hires
Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
47 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%
SmartNews scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 47 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
SmartNews is a Japanese technology company that runs a free news app delivering politics, business, entertainment and weather news from more than 3,000 media partners. It operates in Japan and the United States, offers the SmartNews+ subscription, and hires software engineers, data scientists, security engineers and product marketing managers. The company is headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
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SmartNews Japan Scales Ad Business while Protecting Reader Experience Through AppHarbr - ExchangeWire.com
SmartNews Japan, one of the country's leading news platforms, has scaled its advertising business and driven revenue growth while maintaining a
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Ancient DNA reveals how a single mutation reshaped both horses and human history.
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As Twitter/X rivals explode, news aggregator SmartNews struggles to retain users
News aggregator app SmartNewshad a tough 2023, beginning with widespread layoffs in January and wrapping up with a leadership change that saw co-founder Kaisei Hamamoto assume the role of CEO after the abrupt departure of former CEO Ken Suzuki last month.
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As Twitter/X rivals explode, news aggregator SmartNews struggles to retain users
News aggregator app SmartNewshad a tough 2023, beginning with widespread layoffs in January and wrapping up with a leadership change that saw co-founder
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News aggregator app SmartNews' latest feature aims to tackle doomscrolling
News aggregator SmartNews is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help combat the anxiety associated with regularly consuming negative news --
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News aggregator SmartNews is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help combat the anxiety associated with regularly consuming negative news -- something often referred to as "doomscrolling." Instead of encouraging impulsive scrolling through i
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at SmartNews over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
53
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
Python27%
Java20%
Kotlin20%
SQL20%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js13%
Compose Multiplatform7%
Jetpack Compose7%
Kotlin Multiplatform7%
Databases
Redis7%
Trino7%
MySQL7%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes33%
AWS20%
AWS Bedrock7%
Apache Kafka7%
AI & ML
LLM20%
Claude7%
Gemini7%
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Full SmartNews tech stack
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$127k
Typical range
$127k
Open positions
2
2
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 2 | $127k | $127k |
Highest paying role
Senior Account Executive
$127k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Masaki Hayashi
Executive Officer
Chao Song
Executive Officer
Jason Holtman
Executive Officer
Cory Ondrejka
Executive Officer
Shinsuke Matsumoto
Executive Officer
Yi Ren
Executive Officer
Ramesh Ramalingam
Executive Officer
Reiko Nagatsuma
Executive Officer
Kaisei Hamamoto
Executive Officer, Director
Jin Akiyama
Executive Officer
Ryosuke Saito
Executive Officer
Atsushi Kuroiwa
Executive Officer
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
57/100
Growing
Open positions
20
1 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
42 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
33% ▼
AI/ML
10% ▼
Security
10% ▲
Administrative
10% ▲
Data Science
5% ▲
Backend
5% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Trino to stack
Sep 2026
Added dbt to stack
Sep 2026
Added Jira to stack
Sep 2026
Added SBOM to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Sep 2026
Added Assembly to stack
Sep 2026
Added A2A to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Sep 2026
Added ISO 42001 to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Shibuya
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Tokyo
Japan
HQ
Shibuya
Japan
Regional office
18 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 39% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Sales, AI/ML, Backend
New York
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $127k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Palo Alto
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $127k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Jobs
In office • Full-Time • Shibuya
Python
SQL
Trino
AI/ML
dbt
Analytics
A/B Testing
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≈ $51k – $123k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Shibuya
Assembly
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
A2A
LLM Guardrails
Cybersecurity
SBOM
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≈ $44k – $102k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Shibuya
Model Context Protocol
NIST AI RMF
ISO 42001
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≈ $50k – $116k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Shibuya
Kubernetes
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In office • Full-Time • Shibuya
Python
Go
Java
Kotlin
SQL
C#
C++
MySQL
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Spark
Flink
Machine Learning
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
GitHub
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≈ $46k – $103k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Shibuya
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In office • Full-Time • Shibuya
Cursor
LangChain
Claude
Claude Code
AWS Bedrock
Gemini
LLM
Lovable
Vertex AI Agent Builder
DevOps
AWS
Management
n8n
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In office • Full-Time • Shibuya
RAG
NIST AI RMF
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Management
n8n
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In office • Full-Time • Shibuya
Python
Java
AI Agents
DevOps
Docker
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