# Software Engineer, Ads Platform

About NewsBreak Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech. Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale. Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence. If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about About the role Own and scale the backend of NewsBreak's advertising platform end to end - from the advertiser-facing Ad Manager through the real-time bidding flow that monetizes our traffic - and act as a primary builder for our expansion into external demand and e

- **Id**: 736639
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/newsbreakapp-software-engineer-ads-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-09T22:51:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T03:38:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 63
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4884
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Media, Web Portals

## Company

- **Id**: 11842
- **Name**: NewsBreak
- **Domain**: newsbreak.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/newsbreakapp>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 98
- **Open postings**: 55
- **Ghost share**: 0.036
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 59
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 174000
- **Max usd**: 323000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 3667

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **ClickHouse** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Trino** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 62

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T11:14:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 39
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.876
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 62
- **Expected fill days**: 59
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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