Grocery TV
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
Grocery TV Austin, Texas, USA Office
We're located in the electric East Austin area surrounded by an abundance of hip coffee shops and restaurants.
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