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

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

Posted 11 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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