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

### **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 [](http://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 — 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 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