Full-Stack Web Engineer, Ads & Data 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

We’re seeking a Full-Stack Web Engineer to help build and scale the core systems powering NewsBreak’s advertising and data platform. You’ll work on critical components that enable user signal collection, event processing, campaign management, and advertiser insights. Your contributions will drive smarter targeting, stronger measurement, and sustainable revenue growth across our first-party ad ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and enhance infrastructure for web signal and event collection, including pixel tracking, postback APIs, and third-party data integrations.

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack systems supporting ad creation, campaign management, and performance analytics within our advertising platform.

• Ensure data reliability, scalability, and privacy compliance across all web tracking and advertiser workflows.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, and infra teams to define requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Continuously improve system performance, usability, and developer experience through thoughtful architecture and tooling.

Qualifications

Required:

• 3–7 years of experience in full-stack web engineering (ideally in ad-tech, marketing-tech, analytics or a related domain).

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue), and backend technologies (e.g., Node.js, Express/NestJS).

• Strong understanding of tracking/web instrumentation: browser APIs, cookies/localStorage, post-back flows, event deduplication.

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), CI/CD, containerization or serverless architectures.

• Solid SQL knowledge and working familiarity with event-driven pipelines or message queues (Kafka, PubSub, etc.).

• Excellent communication skills, ability to partner with PMs, analysts, growth, infra and data teams.

Preferred:

• Previous ad-tech or martech experience: building or operating pixel/post-back systems, attribution pipelines, 3rd-party integrations.

• Familiarity with privacy and compliance frameworks (GDPR, CCPA), consent-management flows, browser signal changes (e.g., ITP, ATT).

• Experience with self-serve advertiser platforms, campaign/U/I flows, creative-management, reporting/dashboarding.

• Familiarity with data-visualization technologies and building interactive dashboards in a production U/I.

• Comfortable in a high-velocity environment with evolving requirements and multiple stakeholders.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package:

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family

• Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching

• Paid time off and paid holidays

• Paid parental leave

• FSA and commuter benefits programs

• Team activity budget

The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
Annual Base Pay Range
$175,000—$205,000 USD

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