--- title: 'Senior Staff Engineer - Golang at Grocery TV' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-engineer-golang-grocery-tv-austin-rh8p92bkj37n' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Senior Staff Engineer - Golang at Grocery TV - **Company:** Grocery TV - **Location:** Austin, TX - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gtv/jobs/4707168006 ## Job description Senior Staff Engineer - Golang Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer - Golang Work Location: Austin, TX Reports to: Chief Architect Level: 7 ## 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](http://www.grocerytv.com). ## About The Role This engineer will play a critical role in scaling and hardening Grocery TV’s backend systems as the platform continues to grow. This engineer will work across APIs, content delivery pipelines, and media network orchestration services to improve system resiliency, performance, and reliability. Operating at a Senior Staff Engineering  level, this role is expected to lead and execute backend initiatives end-to-end, bring strong system design judgment, and translate business and product needs into durable technical solutions. This position partners closely with Product and other Software Engineers to ensure backend systems support both current execution and long-term platform strategy. ## Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go - Lead implementation of backend projects that improve system reliability, resiliency, and performance - Design and evolve API-first services that support customer-facing and internal applications - Contribute to system architecture and technical design for future initiatives - Partner with Product to scope, plan, and execute backend work aligned with business goals - Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks across distributed systems - Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems - Collaborate closely with other engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews - Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and incident follow-ups - Proactively identify and implement process improvements in software development process - Be a champion for testing. Leading by example through unit and integration testing throughout projects ## Requirements / Experience - 12+ years of professional software engineering experience - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering - Strong proficiency in Go for building backend services - Experience designing and operating high-scale, high-volume backend systems - Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and tradeoffs - Experience building API-first services, including customer-facing APIs - Familiarity with system reliability, performance tuning, and fault tolerance strategies - Experience working with relational databases and data stores in production environments - Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to reason about complex systems Interview Process - Apply: We review applications as soon as we can. You should hear back about your application within two weeks. - Introduction to Hiring Manager: Meet with the hiring manager (virtually or in-person) to share your background, learn about the role, and align on logistics. - Technical Interview Split in 2: Systems Design and Coding.  Visit our office for a technical interview that relates to the role. You’ll respond to a prompt, and our team will ask questions to better understand your skillset. - Virtual Values Interview: Meet with two Grocery TV employees who you’ll work cross functionally with to discuss team collaboration. This is a perfect opportunity for you to ask us questions, too! - irtual Leadership Interview: Lastly, all candidates have a final interview with a member of the leadership team. This conversation gives you the opportunity to reflect on the interview process and affirm this is the right role for you. 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 DoorDash monthly lunch stipend One $500 Work from home set up stipend Awards & Recognition 2026 Built In Best Of Awards 2026 Best Place for Parents ## About Grocery TV ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Grocery TV operates the largest in-store retail media network for grocery, helping brands and retailers connect with shoppers through digital screens at the point of purchase. - **Entity Type**: Private - **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA - **Founded**: 2016 - **Founders**: Marlow Nickell and Don Oelke ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: In-store retail media, grocery technology, advertising technology (AdTech) - **Target customers**: B2B — serving both **retailers** (grocery stores) and **brands** (CPG companies) seeking to reach shoppers in-store - **Mission or purpose**: Modernize in-store advertising for brands, retailers, and shoppers alike, making in-store retail media more accessible, scalable, and efficient. ## Products & Services - **In-Store Retail Media Network**: A network of digital screens placed strategically throughout grocery stores, reaching shoppers during key moments of their visit. The platform handles the full complexity of operating an in-store media network, from screen deployment to ad sales and performance measurement. - **For Brands**: Access to a measurable, scalable channel to reach shoppers where over 90% of purchases happen, with proven incremental lift in campaign performance. - **For Retailers**: A turnkey solution to modernize stores, drive incremental revenue, and uphold a high-quality shopper experience without operational burden. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Not publicly available (private company) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Over 120 retail partners across the U.S., reaching 6,500 stores and 1 in 4 Americans [grocerytv.com](https://grocerytv.com/). - **Growth Signals**: The company has scaled from founding in 2016 to operating the nation’s largest in-store retail media network for grocery, with a presence across 6,500 stores. Headcount is 56 total employees, with 15 in Product + Tech [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/grocery-tv). Offices span Austin, Dallas, and New York City. ## Competitive Advantages - **Scale**: Operates the largest in-store retail media network for grocery, reaching 95M+ shoppers across 6,500 stores. - **First-mover advantage**: Deep specialization in grocery retail media, with real, hands-on experience in stores. - **Shopper experience focus**: Media is designed to be impactful yet respectful of the shopping experience, avoiding intrusive formats. - **Proven performance**: Measures real campaign lift in-store, where the vast majority of purchases occur. ## Strategic Focus - **Network expansion**: Continuing to grow the number of retail partners and store locations. - **Technology & platform development**: Building out the platform to serve both retailers and brands more effectively, with a strong engineering team focused on Golang, Kotlin (Android), and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Terraform) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/grocery-tv). - **In-store measurement**: Deepening capabilities to prove incremental lift and ROI for brand advertisers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Named one of Built In’s Best Places to Work in the U.S. (multiple years) [grocerytv.com](https://grocerytv.com/blog/built-in-named-us-a-best-place-to-work-heres-why/). The company emphasizes a hybrid work model (3 days in-office per week) with flexibility. - **Engineering environment**: Tech stack includes Golang, Kotlin, TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, and Terraform. The team values innovation and agility. - **Benefits**: Offers health insurance, dental insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), family medical leave, childcare benefits, company equity, relocation assistance, home-office stipend for remote employees, paid industry certifications, online course subscriptions, quarterly engagement surveys, and employee awards [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/grocery-tv). - **DEI**: Has a documented equal pay policy, a diversity manifesto, and a mean gender pay gap below 10%. - **Offices**: Hybrid workspace with offices in Austin (HQ), New York City, and Dallas. ## Sources 1. [Grocery TV About Page](https://grocerytv.com/about/) 2. [Grocery TV Homepage](https://grocerytv.com/) 3. [Grocery TV Careers Page (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gtv) 4. [Built In Grocery TV Profile](https://builtin.com/company/grocery-tv) 5. [Grocery TV Blog - Built In Best Places to Work](https://grocerytv.com/blog/built-in-named-us-a-best-place-to-work-heres-why/) ## Other roles at Grocery TV - [Senior Account Director, National Media](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-account-director-national-media-grocery-tv-new-york-9fpnzs0vwq3j) — New York, NY - [Part Time Field Technician](https://feeny.ai/job/part-time-field-technician-grocery-tv-brooklyn-8p5tpwg152sy) — Brooklyn, NY - [Staff Quality Assurance Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-quality-assurance-engineer-grocery-tv-austin-em14n6scat44) — Austin, TX - [Part Time Field Technician](https://feeny.ai/job/part-time-field-technician-grocery-tv-des-moines-dvz80beeymzd) — Des Moines, IA - [Part Time Field Technician](https://feeny.ai/job/part-time-field-technician-grocery-tv-cedar-rapids-8xkzznfe240v) — Cedar Rapids, IA - [Installation Manager - Raleigh, NC](https://feeny.ai/job/installation-manager-raleigh-nc-grocery-tv-raleigh-1qbxjavt5d0e) — Raleigh, NC - [Senior Manager, Engineering](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-manager-engineering-grocery-tv-austin-zrbkfkqb19he) — Austin, TX - [Staff Android (Kotlin) Engineer — Digital Signage / Embedded Media Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-android-kotlin-engineer-digital-signage-embedded-media-platform-grocery-qab829vrp6bv) — Austin, TX