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Ground News is a news comparison platform that helps readers break free from algorithmic filter bubbles and understand media bias. Unlike algorithm-driven news companies, Ground is supported by reader subscriptions and operates without political ideology alignment.
As a Senior Android Engineer, you'll be a senior individual contributor shaping the technical direction of Ground's Android app. You'll report to the Growth & Monetization App Lead and work within the Growth & Monetization pod, partnering closely with Growth, Marketing, Sponsorships, and Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) teams.
Your primary mandate is to grow the user base and subscription revenue from Android. You'll build high-quality Kotlin experiences across conversion surfaces, partner with non-technical teams to translate growth hypotheses into experiments, and make those partners self-sufficient so they can ship landing-page changes, modals, and pricing experiments without engineering involvement.
Key responsibilities include: owning and evolving the marketing-tech stack (RevenueCat, Google Play, A/B testing, analytics/CDP tools); maturing the mobile experimentation program with rigorous hypothesis framing and clean measurement; setting the bar for mobile performance, accessibility, analytics, and Core Mobile Vitals; acting as the senior technical voice in code review and architecture; managing safe app rollouts with feature flagging and risk mitigation; and maintaining end-to-end funnel instrumentation for trustworthy analytics.
You'll operate as a high-leverage technical leader, shaping architecture, raising code quality, and steering the experimentation roadmap that compounds growth over time. The role includes occasional travel to the Kitchener, Ontario headquarters and company-wide All Hands meetings.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong, opinionated track record of growing user base and revenue from mobile properties with specific outcomes you can point to
- 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 modern marketing technology tooling and best practices
- Demonstrated track record running mobile experimentation (A/B and multivariate testing) with well-formed opinions on best practices
- Experience standing up self-serve tooling (trial screens, Superwall/RevenueCat) enabling non-engineers to ship changes safely; platform migration experience is a plus
- Hands-on experience with PostHog (Amplitude or Segment acceptable) and instrumentation behind trustworthy funnels
- Sharp eye for mobile performance, accessibility, analytics, and conversion on consumer-scale properties
- Experience shipping production changes safely including feature flagging, monitoring, and risk mitigation on revenue-critical surfaces
- Collaborative, cross-functional approach; comfortable as senior technical voice partnering with Growth, Marketing, and CRO
- Willingness to travel occasionally to Kitchener HQ and All Hands meetings
BONUS: Experience mentoring/coaching engineers; subscription or consumer-media product and growth motions experience.
