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

Grocery TV

$200K — $225K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of Android development experience, particularly strong in Kotlin.
  • Proven background in digital signage, smart TV, or embedded platforms.
  • Ability to manage concurrency and solve complex debugging issues.
  • Experience ensuring high uptime for devices in production environments.
  • Experience with streaming media technologies is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and enhance a digital signage platform across multiple operating systems.
  • Manage media playback and device content delivery.
  • Ensure reliability for a large fleet of always-on devices.
  • Collaborate with architecture teams to implement best practices.
  • Support debugging and troubleshooting of device-related issues.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees.
  • $1200 annual Health Savings Account (HSA) match.
  • $1000 annual learning and development budget for each employee.
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).
  • 12-week parental leave for all new parents.
  • Hybrid working model requiring 3 days per week in the office.
  • Monthly lunch stipend from DoorDash.
  • $500 stipend for setting up a home office.
Full Job Description
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

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

  • 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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