Senior Mobile Engineer

Ground News

21h•Remote

About The Position

Ground News is hiring a senior individual contributor to help shape the technical direction of its Android app and grow its user base and subscription revenue. The role sits in the mobile chapter and works day to day with the Growth & Monetization pod, partnering with Growth, Marketing, Sponsorships, and Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO). It reports to the Growth & Monetization App Lead. The engineer will build Android experiences using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and MVVM, and help evolve the marketing technology and experimentation stack, including subscriptions, analytics, and customer data platform integrations. A key goal is to make CRO, Marketing, and Growth partners self-sufficient in shipping changes to landing pages, subscription pages, modals, and pricing experiments without engineering involvement. The role also provides senior technical leadership in architecture, code quality, performance, accessibility, analytics, and safe production rollouts. Ground News is a reader-supported news comparison platform available through mobile and web apps and a browser extension. The company describes its culture as collaborative and creative, and offers remote work. The role may require occasional travel to the Kitchener, Ontario headquarters and company-wide All Hands meetups.

Requirements

A strong, opinionated track record of growing user base and revenue from mobile properties, with specific outcomes to demonstrate.
Deep expertise building production mobile apps with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Firebase, and RevenueCat.
Hands-on experience working with or alongside a CRO function, including familiarity with modern marketing technology tooling and best practices.
Demonstrated experience running mobile A/B and multivariate experiments, with well-formed opinions on experimentation practices.
Experience standing up self-service tooling that lets non-engineers ship changes safely.
Hands-on experience with PostHog, or experience with Amplitude or Segment as substitutes, and the instrumentation needed for a trustworthy funnel.
Strong attention to mobile performance, accessibility, analytics, and conversion on consumer-scale properties.
Experience safely shipping production changes, including feature flagging, monitoring, and risk mitigation on revenue-critical surfaces.
Collaborative, cross-functional approach and comfort acting as a senior technical voice with Growth, Marketing, and CRO partners.
Willingness to travel occasionally to the Kitchener, Ontario headquarters and company-wide All Hands meetups.

Nice To Haves

Experience migrating between self-service platforms such as trial screens, Superwall, or RevenueCat.
Experience mentoring or technically coaching engineers.
Experience with a subscription or consumer-media product and its growth motions.

Responsibilities

Share the technical strategy for Ground News' mobile properties, with a direct mandate to grow the Android user base and subscription revenue.
Build and ship high-quality Kotlin experiences across Android conversion surfaces.
Partner with CRO, Growth, Marketing, and Sponsorships to turn hypotheses into experiments and enable partners to make changes to subscription pages, modals, and copy without engineering involvement.
Own and evolve the marketing technology stack, including subscriptions, experimentation platforms, analytics, and CDP tooling; design guardrails for safety and performance.
Improve the mobile experimentation program by framing hypotheses, sizing impact, ensuring reliable measurement, and shipping successful experiments while interpreting results honestly.
Set standards for mobile performance, accessibility, analytics, and Core Mobile Vitals.
Serve as a senior technical voice in code reviews and mobile architecture, improving engineering quality and expediting the PR process.
Manage safe Android app rollouts through feature flagging, conversion and stability monitoring, and risk mitigation on revenue-critical surfaces.
Maintain end-to-end funnel instrumentation so analytics can be trusted and used for decisions.