Staff Android (Kotlin) Engineer — Digital Signage / Embedded Media Platform
Grocery TV · Austin, TX
$200,000–$225,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level engineering role focused on a digital signage platform running across Android, webOS, and Tizen devices — covering media playback, content delivery, device management, and fleet reliability for hardware deployed in retail stores. The work is embedded/device platform engineering rather than consumer mobile development, and suits engineers with hands-on experience keeping signage or similar long-running media devices running at scale.
Senior level · Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 450 people in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (mobile application developers). range 190–680
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,069 (middle half $106,287–$172,440). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title says 'Staff' but the JD's requirements — strong Android/Kotlin skills, embedded/signage platform experience, concurrency/debugging — describe a Senior-level individual contributor scope with no evidence of cross-team technical direction or org-wide authority. Seniority is assessed as Senior.
The 'Must-have Experience' section lists Android/Kotlin and embedded/signage platform experience as hard gates, plus concurrency/async/multithreading and 24/7 uptime experience. These are captured as required.
Concurrency is listed as a must-have capability rather than a named tool; it is retained because the JD explicitly gates on it ('debugging race conditions and memory issues').
Android SoC vendors (Amlogic, Rockchip, Qualcomm, MediaTek) appear under 'Nice to Have' as context for the type of hardware — no single tool is named, so no separate skill is emitted for SoC work.
Media3/ExoPlayer are listed together under 'Nice to Have'; emitted as a single preferred skill with ExoPlayer as an alternative since they serve the same video playback function.
webOS and Tizen appear together under 'Nice to Have'; emitted as a single preferred skill with Tizen as an alternative.
The salary figure in the posting appears to contain a typo ('$225,0000'); interpreted as $225,000.
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