Staff Android (Kotlin) Engineer — Digital Signage / Embedded Media Platform at Grocery TV (Austin, TX)

Grocery TV· Austin, TX·11h ago

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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

Why work at Grocery TV

Culture: Named one of Built In’s Best Places to Work in the U.S. (multiple years) grocerytv.com. 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.
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.

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.
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. 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.
In-store measurement: Deepening capabilities to prove incremental lift and ROI for brand advertisers.

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