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