Staff Android (Kotlin) Engineer — Digital Signage / Embedded Media Platform

Job Title: Staff Android (Kotlin) Engineer — Digital Signage / Embedded Media Platform

Work Location: Austin, TX, Hybrid office environment (3x/week in office)

Reports to: Chief Architect

Employment Type: Full Time, exempt

Salary: $200,000 - $225,0000

About Grocery TV

Grocery TV is a leading in-store retail media platform. Over 120 retailers partner with Grocery TV to modernize stores and drive incremental revenue while delivering a more engaging shopping experience. We manage the complexities of operating an in-store media network, allowing retailers to focus on serving customers. Reaching 1 in 4 Americans across 6,500+ stores, Grocery TV connects brands with shoppers at the moment of decision, where 90% of purchases take place. For more information, visit www.grocerytv.com.

Summary:

We're building a digital signage platform that runs across Android, webOS, and Tizen devices, and we need a senior Android engineer with real embedded/signage experience to help us level it up.

The Work:
Media playback, device management, content delivery, and platform reliability across a fleet of long-running devices. This is device platform engineering, not mobile app development.

If you've built signage or smart TV software at scale — especially on signageos.io — please mention it up front in your proposal.

Must-have Experience:

Strong Android development in Kotlin
Experience building for digital signage, smart TV, streaming devices, kiosks, or similar embedded media platforms
Comfort with concurrency, async, multithreading, and debugging race conditions and memory issues
Experience building for 24/7 device uptime

Nice to Have:

Experience with the signageos.io platform
Android SoC work (Amlogic, Rockchip, Qualcomm, MediaTek)
Media3 / ExoPlayer, hardware decoders, video playback pipelines webOS or Tizen
MDM / fleet management, MQTT
Performance tuning on constrained hardware

Why Grocery TV?

100% medical, dental, vision coverage options for employees
$1200 annual HSA match
$1000 annual learning & development budget per employee
Unlimited PTO
12 Week Parental Leave for all new parents
Hybrid working model - 3x a week in office
DoorDash monthly lunch stipend
$500 Work from home set up stipend

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