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
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