Staff Engineer

As a Staff Engineer, you'll own the technical direction of the web properties that convert curious visitors into paying subscribers. You'll sit in the Frontend chapter, working day-to-day in the Growth & Monetization pod alongside Revenue Growth, Marketing, Sponsorships, and CRO.

This is not a design role. You won't be doing visual/UX design work; our design partners own that. You’ll own the engineering layers: architecture, experimentation infrastructure, performance, and making non-engineers self-sufficient to ship experiments safely.

Within 90–180 days, success means a marketing or growth teammate can ship a landing-page change, a modal, or a pricing experiment without an engineer in the loop.

What You’ll Do:

• Technical strategy for Ground News' web properties, with a direct mandate on user growth and subscription revenue.
• The marketing-tech stack (currently Unbounce, likely migrating to Framer): you'll lead that migration and set the guardrails.
• The web experimentation program end-to-end.
• Web performance, accessibility, SEO, and Core Web Vitals for a consumer property serving millions of readers.
• Senior voice in code review and architecture across the frontend chapter.
• Safe rollout practices on Flightcontrol for revenue-critical surfaces.

What You’ll Bring:

• 8+ years building production web applications, with 3+ years at a senior or staff IC level.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Next.js, React, and TypeScript. You’ve built and shipped at scale.
• A specific, quantifiable track record of growing user base or revenue from a web property.
• Hands-on experience running A/B or multivariate experiments end-to-end: hypothesis framing, sample sizing, clean measurement, honest read of results.
• Direct experience working inside or alongside a CRO function, fluent in marketing-tech tooling (Unbounce, Framer, Webflow, or similar).
• Experience with PostHog, Amplitude, or Segment, and building trustworthy funnel instrumentation from scratch.
• Experience shipping to production on revenue-critical surfaces with feature flagging, monitoring, and rollback discipline.

Bonus Points:

• Experience technically coaching engineers.
• Experience with a subscription or consumer-media product.

Why Work at Ground?

Co-founded by a former NASA engineer and Bain consultant, a position with Ground News provides an unparalleled learning experience both personally and professionally. At Ground, we prioritize growth: both for our business and team members. You’ll have the freedom to work remotely and play a key role in the development of Ground News products.

This is an opportunity to work with a growing and mighty team that is committed to building a world where cooperative, civil debate is the norm, media is accountable, and critical thought is the baseline of our information consumption. Ground is based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, but this role is remote.

What You’ll Enjoy at Ground News:

• Competitive total rewards: A market-benchmarked base salary, calibrated to your location.
• Remote-first environment: Work from anywhere in Canada, on your own time zone plus enjoy in-person meetups and team gatherings.
• Health & Wellness that matter: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage for you and your family.
• Keep growing: Access to professional development opportunities to keep expanding your skills and career.
• Mission-driven team: Join a group of smart, dedicated people who are building meaningful products with real-world impact.