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title: 'Staff Android (Kotlin) Engineer — Digital Signage / Embedded Media Platform at Grocery TV'
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# Staff Android (Kotlin) Engineer — Digital Signage / Embedded Media Platform at Grocery TV

- **Company:** Grocery TV
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gtv/jobs/4695307006

## 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

## 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).

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

## 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/)

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