Android Engineer

• Direct multiple AI coding agents in parallel to design, build, test, and ship Android features in Kotlin against the Android SDK.
• Take total ownership of a slice of the Android app — discovery, scoping, architecture, implementation, QA, release, monitoring, and iteration.
• Run an “engineer-as-a-team” workflow — spawn agents for spec drafting, codegen, test generation, code review, refactoring, doc writing, and bug triage, then merge, judge, and ship.
• Develop and defend a strong point of view on what good Android code looks like inside Grove’s architecture (Clean Architecture, multi-module Gradle with base/middleware/data/app, MVVM with DataBinding, Koin for DI, Coroutines/Flow, Moshi) so you can critically review AI output and reject what doesn’t meet our bar.
• Design prompts, evals, and harnesses that make AI-assisted mobile development repeatable and measurable, not artisanal.
• Stand up automation that closes the loop: Fastlane lanes, CircleCI checks, AppCenter/Play Console distribution, device test farms, telemetry-driven rollback, and AI-powered review gates.
• Drive architecture decisions with AI as a research and prototyping partner — explore three options in a day instead of one in a week, including the path to introducing Jetpack Compose into a DataBinding/XML codebase.
• Collaborate with other engineers on architecture and trade-offs — bring designs for review before you ship them. Solicit business context from PMs, designers, and platform engineers; don’t guess in isolation.
• Own production health autonomously — monitor Sentry, Datadog, Cloudflare, and Firebase to assess system health, triage incidents, and re-prioritize your own backlog without being asked. You set the queue; you don’t wait for someone to tell you what’s broken.
• Mentor the Heady contractor team on AI-native workflows and share learnings with mobile peers.
• Triage Sentry crashes, hotfix, and root-cause incidents with AI-assisted investigation and remediation (we already run Sentry’s auto-fix agent — you’ll push it further).

AI-First Android Engineer

• Provide leadership, technical direction, and oversight to a team delivering technology solutions
• Provide oversight of the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs
• Conduct multiple software implementations and apply knowledge of technical competencies
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure healthy product backlog/requirements
• Mentor team members on engineering practices and skills

Lead Android Engineer

• Work closely with product, design, and UX to develop a new banking experience
• Contribute to the development of Android applications
• Participate in code reviews
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies
• Design, develop, and refine features and functionality
• Develop and maintain high quality code using industry best practices
• Publishing builds through pipeline and app store submission process
• Instruct, direct, and quality assure the work of other developers and analysts
• Gather client requirements, analyze, design, and create complex application solutions
• Prepare detailed specifications from which complex programs will be written

Android Software Engineer

• Architect, design, and ship Android solutions that run 24/7 on restaurant hardware - including fully offline, under network loss, with zero tolerance for data loss on transactions.
• Lead the reliability and resilience strategy for our Android platform: observability, fault tolerance, graceful degradation, crash-free rate targets, and disaster recovery.
• Drive performance work end-to-end - cold start, frame time, memory, battery, binary size, and local database throughput - with measurable outcomes.
• Set the bar for how our team uses AI in daily engineering work. Integrate tools like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and internal agents into your own workflow, and help codify the patterns (prompts, agent instructions, MCP integrations, evaluation approaches) that make the rest of the team faster and more rigorous.
• Partner with Product, Design, Backend, Firmware, and Payments to translate restaurant operator problems into technical direction, and communicate trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and written technical guidance. Raise the team's ceiling, not just your own output.
• Own the full lifecycle: requirements, design docs, implementation, testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
• Evaluate new technologies (including AI-augmented tooling, frameworks, and libraries) and make clear recommendations on what to adopt, what to defer, and why.

Staff Software Engineer – Android

• Design and maintain Android services and apps for headless and non-touch environments, ensuring the application boots instantly and recovers automatically from failures.
• Optimize video pipelines using ExoPlayer/Media3 to handle 4K content, seamless looping, and multi-zone rendering without dropped frames.
• Implement and tune HLS, RTSP, and Multicast (UDP) streaming capabilities, focusing on low-latency delivery and robust buffer management.
• Work directly with device hardware APIs (serial ports, HDMI-CEC, USB-HID) to control screens, sensors, and external peripherals.
• Develop logic for Remote Device Management (RDM), including silent background updates, real-time telemetry, and remote screenshot/logging capabilities.
• Own "Always-On" reliability—managing memory leaks, thermal throttling, and offline-first data persistence (Room/SQLite) to survive network outages.

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