Staff Frontend Engineer

Ground News

3d • Remote

About The Position

Ground News is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to own the technical direction of their web properties. This senior individual contributor role focuses on growing the user base and revenue from the web. The engineer will work within the Frontend chapter and the Growth & Monetization pod, collaborating with Revenue Growth, Marketing, Sponsorships, and CRO teams. The role involves setting standards for web development, measurement, and experimentation. The web stack includes Next.js, React, and TypeScript, deployed via Flightcontrol. The ideal candidate has deep fluency in modern frontend engineering, a growth mindset, and experience with consumer web properties. A key goal is to empower CRO, Marketing, and Sponsorships partners to become self-sufficient in shipping web changes within 90-180 days. This involves evaluating and maturing tooling such as visual page builders, experimentation platforms, and analytics/CDP integrations. The role requires shaping architecture, improving code quality, and steering the experimentation roadmap to drive compounding growth.

Requirements

• A solid track record of growing the user base and revenue from web properties. You can point to specific outcomes you drove.
• Deep expertise building production web applications in Next.js, React, and TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience working with or alongside a CRO function, including fluency in the tooling and best practices of modern marketing technology.
• A demonstrated track record of running web experimentation (A/B and multivariate testing) and strong, well-formed opinions on how to do it well.
• Experience standing up self-serve tooling (visual page and landing-page builders such as Unbounce or Framer, headless content, experimentation platforms) that lets non-engineers ship changes safely; experience migrating between such platforms is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with PostHog is highly valued (Amplitude or Segment are acceptable substitutes), along with the instrumentation behind a trustworthy funnel.
• A sharp eye for web performance, accessibility, SEO, and conversion on consumer-scale properties.
• Experience shipping changes safely to production, including feature flagging, monitoring, and risk mitigation on revenue-critical surfaces.
• A collaborative, cross-functional approach: you're comfortable acting as a senior technical voice and partnering closely with Growth, Marketing, and CRO.

Nice To Haves

• Experience technically coaching or mentoring engineers.
• Experience with a subscription or consumer-media product and its growth motions.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy for Ground News' web properties, with a direct mandate to grow the user base and subscription revenue from web.
• Build and ship high-quality Next.js / React / TypeScript experiences across our marketing site, landing pages, paywall, and conversion surfaces.
• Partner with the CRO, Growth, Marketing, and Sponsorships functions to translate hypotheses into experiments, making those partners self-sufficient so they can change landing pages, modals, and copy without engineering in the loop.
• Own and evolve the marketing-tech stack: today our landing pages run on Unbounce, with a likely future migration to Framer, alongside A/B testing and experimentation platforms and analytics / CDP tooling: you'll lead that evolution and design the guardrails that keep it safe and performant.
• Mature and add rigour to our web experimentation program: framing hypotheses, sizing impact, ensuring clean measurement, and shipping winners while reading results honestly.
• Set the bar for web performance, accessibility, SEO, and Core Web Vitals on a consumer property serving millions of readers.
• Act as the senior voice in code review and architecture for the frontend chapter, expediting the PR process and raising overall engineering quality.
• Manage safe rollouts on Flightcontrol: feature flagging, monitoring conversion and stability, and mitigating risk on revenue-critical surfaces.
• Maintain instrumentation of the funnel end to end so the team can trust its analytics and make decisions from data.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards: A market-benchmarked base salary, calibrated to your location.
• Remote-first environment: Work from anywhere in Canada, on your own time zone plus enjoy in-person meetups and team gatherings.
• Health & Wellness that matter: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage for you and your family.
• Keep growing: Access to professional development opportunities to keep expanding your skills and career.
• Mission-driven team: Join a group of smart, dedicated people who are building meaningful products with real-world impact. Our culture is one of collaboration, creativity, and diverse perspectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed