Senior Software Engineer at Ground News
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As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be working on the core systems that make Ground News tick and ready to serve millions of readers. You'll sit with our backend chapter and work with the Core Experience pod. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will work closely with the engineering team to design, build, and operate the services that empower our users to see every side of the story. Our development team is fairly small, so you will represent a significant portion of the developing power behind the product. Your ideas and work will quickly and frequently become part of the product.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll bring fresh ideas to a fast-growing consumer platform, balancing technical excellence with operational rigor. From designing and shipping backend services to improving observability, reliability, and performance, your work will directly impact how dependably people engage with the world’s news.
What You’ll Do:
Rapid Ownership and Delivery: Quickly take ownership of customer-facing features and products, with an expectation to roll out new developments within weeks of joining.
End-to-End Project Involvement: Engage in projects from conception and design to implementation and delivery, collaborating with stakeholders to refine solutions.
Flexible Development Approach: Operate in an environment that values lean and agile methodologies, though not strictly adhering to any one framework.
Cross-Department Collaboration: Work closely with team members from various departments, effectively communicating technical aspects to non-technical stakeholders and translating their needs into implementable solutions.
What You’ll Bring:
At least 5 years of experience with TypeScript, including Async/Await syntax
At least 3 years of experience with Node.js
At least 3 years of experience with Relational Databases (MySQL/Postgres ideally, but other RDs also good)
A strong desire to learn and progress as a developer
Ability to think critically and make informed decisions
Knack for writing efficient and scalable code, and for recognizing bad patterns to avoid
At least some experience with ElasticSearch, Redis/Valkey or similar caching system
A track record of shipping and scaling reliable services for a successful consumer product.
Experience planning and executing rollouts safely, including monitoring stability and mitigating risk.
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Ground News
View Company ProfileGround News (operating under ground.news, legally Snapwise Inc.) is the premier, enterprise-grade news comparison platform, media bias analytics pioneer, and data-driven information transparency powerhouse engineered to act as the definitive, high-visibility objective aggregation layer, real-time reporting synthesis system, and algorithmic bias metrics framework for global citizens, news consumers, and researchers. Founded in 2018 by former NASA space systems engineer Harleen Kaur and award-winning application architect Sukh Singh, the corporate ecosystem completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of modern digital media consumption—where algorithmically driven echo chambers, partisan editorial spins, filter bubbles, and hidden institutional ownership structures distort public reality and amplify social polarization—by deploying a continuous, natural language processing (NLP) driven aggregation matrix. Moving far beyond traditional, passive RSS feeds, curated editorial news hubs, or localized syndications, Ground News natively unifies the deep structural ingestion of over 60,000 global news articles daily, multi-point cross-spectrum bias charting, factual accountability tracking, and transparent corporate media ownership profiling into a single high-availability verification platform. Under the hood, its advanced software architecture cross-references real-time story clusters across more than 50,000 independent and mainstream media outlets, evaluating individual publisher metrics against standardized bias data sets from elite monitoring agencies including AllSides, Ad Fontes Media, and Media Bias/Fact Check to calculate a definitive, multi-dimensional profile for every breaking story. A cornerstone of its product engine is the proprietary Blindspot Feed, a specialized data visualization environment that surfaces critical national and international stories receiving vastly asymmetric coverage or complete media omission on either side of the political spectrum. Headquartered in Ontario, Canada, the private enterprise operates on a robust, community-supported freemium subscription infrastructure, securing institutional acceleration and strategic backing from elite mission-aligned investment groups including Techstars, 37 Angels, and Something Good Ventures to scale its data processing layers. What sets Ground News apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing passive, algorithmically isolated content feeds with explicit source comparison, transparent corporate context, and cognitive empowerment; by bridging the gap between high-volume programmatic media repositories and clear, balanced narrative visibility, the corporation remains a definitive cornerstone of modern civic technology and global news consumption transformation.
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