Software Engineer, Service Backend

Every day, SmartNews analyzes millions of URLs to deliver the top articles that matter in near-real time to millions of users around the world. Our backend engineers ensure that we can respond to volumes exceeding >1M requests/min—with content that is dynamically personalized for each user. 

With more than 25M downloads, SmartNews is one of the most popular news apps. We use machine learning to power news discovery and deliver better, higher quality recommendations.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement core backend systems
• Analyze and improve stability, efficiency, and scalability of various systems

Minimum Qualifications

• Over 5 years of experience in backend development
• Coding experience in Java, Kotlin, or Scala
• Experience operating and maintaining a JVM-based application
• Experience developing on top of a web framework (e.g. Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, etc.)
• Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS
• Experience developing and operating a high-traffic web service
• Good understanding of JVM internals
• Strong interest in news media and our mission to deliver high quality information to the world