Front-end Engineer in Haystack News

Haystack News is the leading local & world news service on Connected TVs reaching millions of users! This is a unique opportunity to work at Haystack News, one of the fastest-growing TV startups in the world. We are already preloaded on 37% of all TVs shipped in the US!

Be part of a Silicon Valley startup and work directly with the founding team. Jumpstart your career by working with Stanford & Carnegie Mellon alumni and faculty who have already been part of other successful startups in Silicon Valley.

You should join us if you're hungry to learn how Silicon Valley startups thrive, you like to ship quickly and often, love to solve challenging problems, and like working in small teams.

See Haystack's feature at this year's Google IO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YawUi6qPck

We are passionate about creating amazing consumer experiences. We're a talented and experienced team that emphasizes giving everyone on the team a lot of ownership over what they are working on. We sweat every product detail. That includes making the backend and frontend extremely performant, picking and prioritizing the right videos for each user, and building a beautiful and easy-to-use interface.

As a Front-end Engineer, you'll be responsible for developing our web app and HTML-based Smart TV app on a variety of platforms (e.g. Samsung, LG, Sony, etc).

(IMPORTANT: Your job application has to be in English)