Newsela
Adapts instructional content to student reading levels for classrooms.
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- Founded
- 2013
- Employees
- 478
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Matthew Gross
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Series D · $100M · 2021
- Subsidiaries
- Formative, Generation Genius, Schoolytics, HapYak
About
Newsela is an education technology startup dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. Offering engaging instructional content tailored to K-12 students, Newsela serves nearly two million teachers worldwide, helping improve reading skills across diverse educational settings. The company values creativity and passion, seeking employees who believe in rigorous and personalized learning experiences.
Open positions
Contractor: Senior Software Engineer
Newsela, an education technology company, is hiring a contractor Senior Software Engineer (fully remote from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, or Costa Rica) to own feature delivery end-to-end — scoping, building, and releasing well-tested software including AI/LLM-integrated features. ~12-month contract paid monthly in USD.
Contractor: Lead Analytics Engineer
Lead a team to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and analytics systems using SQL, Python, and dbt, ensuring clean, reliable data for K–12 education insights.