Frontend Engineer

About Us:

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.

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll own the technical direction of the web properties that turn curious visitors into engaged subscribers. 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 web.

You’ll sit within the Frontend chapter and work day‑to‑day out of the Growth & Monetization pod, partnering closely with Revenue Growth, Marketing, the Sponsor ships team, and Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) function. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you’ll set the bar for how we build, measure, and experiment on the web.

Our web stack is Next.js and React in Type Script, deployed via Flightcontrol. You’ll bring deep fluency in modern frontend 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 web property.

A defining goal of this role is to make our CRO, Marketing, and Sponsor ships 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‑agency, staff‑level role. You’ll operate as the senior technical voice for web: shaping architecture, raising code quality, and steering the experimentation roadmap that compounds growth over time.

• Own the technical strategy for Ground News’ web properties, with a direct mandate to grow the user base and subscription revenue from web.
• Build and ship high‑quality Next.js / React / Type Script experiences across our marketing site, landing pages, paywall, and conversion surfaces.
• Partner with the CRO, Growth, Marketing, and Sponsor ships functions to translate hypotheses into experiments, making those partners self‑sufficient so they can change landing pages, modals, and copy without engineering in the loop.
• Own and evolve the marketing‑tech stack: today our landing pages run on Unbounce, with a likely future migration to Framer, alongside A/B testing and experimentation platforms and analytics / CDP tooling: you’ll lead that evolution and design the guardrails that keep it safe and performant.
• Mature and add rigour to our web experimentation program: framing hypotheses, sizing impact, ensuring clean measurement, and shipping winners while reading results honestly.
• Set the bar for web performance, accessibility, SEO, and Core Web Vitals on a consumer property serving millions of readers.
• Act as the senior voice in code review and architecture for the frontend chapter, expediting the PR process and raising overall engineering quality.
• Manage safe rollouts on Flightcontrol: feature flagging, monitoring conversion and stability, and mitigating risk on revenue‑critical surfaces.
• Maintain instrumentation of the funnel end to end so the team can trust its analytics and make decisions from data.

• A solid track record of growing the user base and revenue from web properties. You can point to specific outcomes you drove.
• Deep expertise building production web applications in Next.js, React, and Type Script.
• Hands…