[Remote] Staff Software Engineer (Android)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SpotOn is a company dedicated to providing independent restaurants with innovative technology solutions. They are seeking a Staff Android Software Engineer to lead technical direction for their Android-native POS and handheld applications, ensuring resilience and performance while mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year architectural roadmap for our Android applications
• Lead high-impact technical projects that span multiple squads, such as modularizing our codebase, optimizing local data persistence (Room/SQLite), or overhauling our UI layer with Jetpack Compose
• Take ownership of the stability and performance of our hospitality suite
• Act as a mentor to Senior and Mid-level engineers
• Work with Engineering, Product, Design, and leadership to evaluate feasibility, shape roadmap decisions, and align technical investments with customer and business outcomes
• Partner with enablement teams to improve CI/CD, automated testing, failure analysis, and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools

Skills

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building Android applications at scale. Demonstrated track record operating at Staff Engineer scope or equivalent technical leadership
• Deep Kotlin experience, including coroutines, Flow, and structured concurrency. Experience modernizing or interoperating with legacy Android architectures, such as RxJava-based systems
• Proven experience designing and evolving large, multi-module Android applications
• Strong understanding of Android architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, or similar approaches
• Experience with complex local data management, offline-first workflows, synchronization, or high-volume real-time data flows
• Ability to diagnose complex performance, reliability, and cross-layer issues across application, OS, hardware, and network boundaries
• Track record of leading technical initiatives through influence across multiple teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
• Experience building POS, hospitality, retail, logistics, payments, or other operationally critical software
• Experience integrating with payment SDKs, device services, Bluetooth/USB peripherals, printers, scanners, or custom Android hardware
• Experience with mobile observability tools such as Grafana, Sentry, Firebase, ELK, or similar platforms
• Experience improving automated testing, CI/CD, release quality, or developer productivity for mobile teams

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k with company match
• RSUs
• Paid vacation, 10 company holidays, sick time, and volunteer time off
• Employee Resource Groups to build community and inclusion at work
• Monthly cell phone and internet stipend
• Tuition reimbursement for up to $2,000 per calendar year to assist with your professional development

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