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Ground News is a platform that makes it easy to compare news sources, read between the lines of media bias and break free from algorithms.

In a world where political polarization and media distrust are at an all-time high, Ground News offers people a better way to stay informed and see every side of the story. Our mobile app, web app, and browser extension are home to a community of mindful readers who use our news comparison platform to engage with news beyond their filter bubble.

Unlike most news companies, our values do not align with any specific political ideology. Unlike most tech platforms, we don't rely on algorithms to keep users on our platform to sell more ads. We are supported by our readers who pay for a subscription to build a more nuanced understanding of the news, the world, and themselves.

The Opportunity: Senior Android Engineer

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, the Sponsorships team, and our 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 and RevenueCat. You'll bring deep fluency in modern mobile engineering together with a growth mindset: you think in funnels, experiments, and conversion, and you have informed views on what moves the numbers on a consumer mobile property.

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. You'll evaluate and mature tooling: visual page and landing-page builders, experimentation platforms, analytics and CDP integrations.

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.

What You'll Do

• 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.