Senior Mobile Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Communicate the technical strategy for Ground News' mobile platforms, focusing on increasing Android users and subscription revenue.

• Develop and deploy high-quality Kotlin experiences across Android conversion surfaces.

• Collaborate with CRO, Growth, Marketing, and Sponsorship teams to convert hypotheses into actionable experiments.

• Empower non-engineering team members to modify subscription pages, modals, and copy without requiring engineering assistance.

• Oversee and advance the marketing-technology stack, which includes RevenueCat, Google Play, experimentation platforms, analytics, and CDP tools.

• Enhance the mobile experimentation program by framing hypotheses, assessing impact, measuring outcomes, and deploying successful experiments.

• Establish benchmarks for mobile performance, accessibility, analytics, and Core Mobile Vitals.

• Act as the senior technical authority in code reviews and mobile architecture discussions.

• Manage secure Android rollouts using feature flagging, monitoring, and risk management techniques.

• Ensure comprehensive funnel instrumentation for reliable analytics and data-driven decision-making.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven, assertive history of expanding user bases and revenue from mobile platforms, with concrete results.

• Extensive knowledge in building production mobile applications using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Firebase, and RevenueCat.

• Practical experience collaborating with or within a CRO function.

• Proficient in contemporary marketing technology tools and best practices.

• Established experience in conducting mobile experimentation, including A/B and multivariate testing.

• Background in creating self-service tools for non-engineers to implement changes safely; experience with platform migrations is advantageous.

• Practical experience with PostHog; familiarity with Amplitude or Segment is also acceptable.

• Knowledge of instrumentation within a reliable funnel.

• Keen attention to mobile performance, accessibility, analytics, and conversion within consumer-scale applications.

• Experience in delivering production changes securely through feature flagging, monitoring, and risk management.

• Willingness to travel occasionally to the Kitchener, Ontario headquarters and participate in company-wide All Hands meetings.

• Experience in mentoring or technically guiding engineers is a plus.

• Background in subscription or consumer-media products is an added advantage.

• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work opportunities.

• Flexibility to work from anywhere.

• Opportunities for learning and professional development.

• Occasional travel to the Kitchener, Ontario headquarters and participation in company-wide All Hands meetings.

• A collaborative culture that encourages diverse perspectives.