[Hiring] Senior Mobile Engineer @Ground News

Role Description

As a senior mobile engineer, you’ll share the technical direction of our Android app, which turns curious visitors into engaged, paying readers. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone with a strong, data-informed track record of growing both the user base and revenue from mobile.

You'll sit within our mobile chapter and work day-to-day out of the Growth & Monetization pod, partnering closely with:

• Growth
• Marketing
• Sponsorships team
• Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) function

Reporting to the Growth & Monetization App Lead, you'll set the bar for how we build, measure, and experiment on the Android.

Our stack includes:

• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• MVVM
• Firebase
• RevenueCat

A defining goal of this role is to make our CRO, Marketing, and Sponsorships partners self-sufficient. Within your first 90–180 days, success looks like:

• A marketing or growth teammate being able to ship a landing-page change, a modal, or a pricing experiment without an engineer in the loop.

This is a high-leverage role. You'll operate as the senior technical voice for mobile, shaping architecture, raising code quality, and steering the experimentation roadmap that compounds growth over time.

Qualifications

• A strong, opinionated track record of growing the user base and revenue from mobile properties.
• Deep expertise building production mobile apps in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Firebase, and RevenueCat.
• Hands-on experience working with or alongside a CRO function.
• A demonstrated track record of running mobile experimentation (A/B and multivariate testing).
• Experience standing up self-serve tooling (trial screens and Superwall/Revenue Cat).
• Hands-on experience with PostHog (Amplitude or Segment are acceptable substitutes).
• 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.
• A collaborative, cross-functional approach.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to our Kitchener, Ontario HQ and for company-wide All Hands meetups.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Co-founded by a former NASA engineer and Bain consultant, providing an unparalleled learning experience.
• Prioritization of growth for both the business and team members.
• Freedom to work remotely.
• Opportunity to play a key role in the development of Ground News products.
• Work with a growing team focused on building a world where cooperative, civil debate is the norm.