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

Posted 10 Days Ago
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Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in Basel, KS
100-100 Hourly
Senior level
Easy Apply
Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in Basel, KS
100-100 Hourly
Senior level
Build and improve an embedded digital signage Android platform: media playback, device management, content delivery, and reliability for long-running 24/7 devices. Focus on platform-level engineering (not mobile apps) and debugging concurrency, memory, and performance issues on constrained hardware.
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Senior Android (Kotlin) Engineer — Digital Signage / Embedded Media Platform (Contract)

Job Title: Contract Senior Android (Kotlin) Engineer — Digital Signage / Embedded Media Platform 

Work Location: Remote, must be US based

Reports to: Chief Architect

Employment Type: 1099 Contract, 20 - 40 hours per week

Salary: $100/hour

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.

This is a 20-40 hour a week 1099 contract role. This role is not a full time opportunity at this time.

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

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