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# Contract: Sr. Analytics Engineer - Internal Data at Newsela

- **Company:** Newsela
- **Location:** Argentina / Brazil / Chile / Costa Rica
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela/jobs/7818607

## Job description

Seeking to hire a Senior Analytical Engineer - Contractor based out of Argentina for Newsela's Internal Data Team.

- We are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our data team.
- Reporting to the Hiring Manager, you will be responsible for applying data engineering best practices to analytics code to transform, test, and document data.
- You will provide clean and organized data sets to end users.
- You will be provide expert code reviews and mentorship to other engineers in the data space
- You will be responsible for building and maintaining composable data models, as well as optimizing SQL query performance for the models you build.
- You will transform raw data into business insights, working closely with stakeholders and developing analyses to answer critical business questions.
- You will create data visualizations and help stakeholders explore and understand the data visualization tools available to them.

Why you'll love this role:

Data Modeling and Transformation

- Build new analyses and support existing ones using SQL and Python.
- Apply software engineering principles like version control and continuous integration to the analytics codebase.
- Expand our data warehouse with clean data ready for analysis.

Data Quality and Testing

- Apply advanced data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned with expected business logic.
- Implement validation checks and automated testing procedures to manage data quality in your ETL/ELT pipelines.

Collaboration and Communication

- Work with stakeholders to define business logic and data expectations.
- Help drive a change in the usage of data by actively surfacing insights to stakeholders.
- Lead initiatives and problem definition, scoping, design, and planning.

Infrastructure and Automation

- Build tools and automation to run data infrastructure.
- Manage large-scale data migrations in relational datastores.

Why you're a great fit:

- 8+ Years experience working with data in a software environment.
- Required Skills: Mastered proficiency in SQL and Python; advanced experience managing business semantic layer tooling, data catalog tooling and  data integrity testing frameworks. Experience with dbt orchestration and best practices.
- You have a track record of working autonomously and proactively, with deep domain knowledge of data systems.
- Required Tech Stack: SQL, Python, relational datastores, DAG tooling (like Dagster or Airflow), dbt and Tableau.
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform) and document, graph, or schema-less datastores.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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## About Newsela

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Newsela is an education technology company that provides a content and assessment platform with differentiated, standards-aligned instructional resources for K-12 schools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Education technology (E-Learning Providers)
- **Target customers**: B2B (U.S. K-12 school districts); teachers and administrators are primary users; also serves individual teachers (freemium model).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Meaningful classroom learning for every student."

## Products & Services
- **[Newsela ELA](https://newsela.com/)**: Differentiated fiction and nonfiction texts, novel studies, and curriculum complements to support knowledge-rich literacy instruction. (SaaS)
- **[Newsela Social Studies](https://newsela.com/)**: Primary sources, biographies, current events, and interactive multimedia to support critical thinking and diverse perspectives. (SaaS)
- **[Newsela Science](https://newsela.com/)**: Engaging videos, standards-aligned texts, lessons, and activities to support real-world science connections. (SaaS)
- **[Formative by Newsela](https://newsela.com/)**: A real-time instruction and assessment platform that unifies district assessments and delivers standards-aligned insights for administrators and teachers. (SaaS, acquired in 2023)
- **[Newsela Writing / Luna AI](https://newsela.com/)**: AI-powered, rubric-aligned writing feedback delivered in real time to support writing practice across the curriculum. (AI tool)
- **Schoolytics** (acquired): Student data unification platform providing role-based dashboards and actionable insights. (SaaS)
- **Generation Genius** (acquired February 2025): Science and math video content for K-8.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company). Total funding of $172.2M as of 2021.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $50M (source: LinkedIn company data). Over 25 million users (students and teachers) and used in ~90% of U.S. K-12 schools.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: TCV (lead Series C & D), Franklin Templeton (lead Series D), Kleiner Perkins (lead Series B), Owl Ventures (lead Series A), NewSchools Venture Fund & Kapor Capital (Seed).
- **Growth Signals**: 12.6% year-over-year headcount growth (to 386 employees); continuous product expansion via acquisitions (Formative, Schoolytics, Generation Genius); launch of Luna AI; 2025 CODiE Awards (Winner for Newsela Writing, Finalist for ELA and Social Studies).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Differentiated content at scale**: Library of 18,000+ texts and videos from 175+ content providers, available at five reading levels – enabling personalized learning without compromising standards alignment.
- **Entrenched in U.S. schools**: 90% of K-12 schools use Newsela, creating a strong network effect and switching costs.
- **Comprehensive product suite**: Covers ELA, social studies, science, formative assessment, and data analytics under one roof, reducing tool fragmentation for districts.
- **AI-powered tools**: Luna AI provides real-time writing feedback, saving teachers time while differentiating instruction.
- **Research-backed efficacy**: ESSA Tier II studies show product accelerates learning in ELA and social studies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion of AI capabilities**: Deeper integration of Luna AI across the product portfolio to automate lesson planning, activity design, and text differentiation.
- **Product integration**: Unifying acquired companies (Formative, Schoolytics, Generation Genius) into a seamless platform for districts.
- **Market penetration**: Growing international presence (currently operating in 13 countries) and deepening relationships with large school districts.
- **Supplemental curriculum leadership**: Positioning Newsela as the go-to source for engaging, standards-aligned supplemental materials across core subjects.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully remote**: Newsela is a fully remote team across the United States with some roles in Latin America.
- **Culture and mission**: Emphasis on work that makes a tangible impact on K-12 education – "inspire a generation of learners, support and empower teachers."
- **Benefits**: Unlimited time off, generous family leave (maternity, paternity, adoption), wellness resources (mind & body discounts, access to world-class medical experts including pet coverage), and learning stipends.
- **Engineering/Product culture**: Open roles for data engineers, analytics engineers, site reliability engineers, and product managers. The company values creative, passionate employees "with quick minds and warm hearts."
- **Growth opportunities**: 30 active job postings across sales, customer success, product, and technology; 12.6% annual headcount growth indicates a scaling organization.

## Sources
1. [newsela.com/careers](https://newsela.com/careers)
2. [newsela.com/company](https://newsela.com/company)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela)
4. [linkedin.com/company/newsela](https://www.linkedin.com/company/newsela)
5. [newsela.com](https://newsela.com/)

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