groundnews - Senior Mobile Engineer
Requirements
• A strong, opinionated track record of growing the user base and revenue from mobile properties. You can point to specific outcomes you drove. • Deep expertise building production mobile apps in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Firebase and RevenueCat. • 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 mobile experimentation (A/B and multivariate testing) and strong, well-formed opinions on how to do it well. • Experience standing up self-serve tooling (trial screens and Superwall/Revenue Cat) 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 mobile performance, accessibility, analytics, 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—comfortable acting as a senior technical voice and partnering closely with Growth, Marketing, and CRO. • Willingness to travel occasionally to our Kitchener, Ontario HQ and for company-wide All Hands meetups. • 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 user base and subscription revenue from Android. • Build and ship high-quality Kotlin experiences across our Android app's many 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 subscription pages, modals, and copy without engineering in the loop. • Own and evolve the marketing-tech stack: today our subscriptions work heavily with RevenueCat and Google Play directly, 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 mobile experimentation program: framing hypotheses, sizing impact, ensuring clean measurement, and shipping winners while reading results honestly. • Set the bar for mobile performance, accessibility, analytics, and Core Mobile Vitals on a consumer property serving millions of readers. • Act as the senior voice in code review and architecture for the mobile chapter, expediting the PR process and raising overall engineering quality. • Manage safe rollouts of the Android app: 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
• Co-founded by a former NASA engineer and Bain consultant, a position with Ground News provides an unparalleled learning experience both personally and professionally. At Ground, we prioritize growth: both for our business and team members. You'll have the freedom to work remotely and play a key role in the development of Ground News products. • This is an opportunity to work with a growing and mighty team that is fighting every day to build a world where cooperative, civil debate is the norm, media is accountable, and critical thought is the baseline of our information consumption. Ground is based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. • Our culture is one of collaboration, creativity, and diverse perspectives. If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding accessibility needs, please contact [email protected], and a member of our team will be happy to help.
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