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