Staff Software Engineer (Android)

SpotOn builds restaurant technology, including point-of-sale and AI-powered profit tools, to help independent restaurants compete and operate more effectively. The Staff Android Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for Android-native POS and handheld applications, defining architecture and ensuring reliability, performance, and offline-first functionality. The role is hands-on and includes writing production code, leading cross-functional initiatives, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product and engineering leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define and drive the multi-year architectural roadmap for our Android applications. You will ensure our "offline-first" capabilities and real-time data syncing remain reliable, scalable, and continuously improving as we scale
• Lead Cross-Functional Initiatives: 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
• Reliability at Scale: Take ownership of the stability and performance of our hospitality suite. You’ll design systems that are resilient to the high-pressure, 24/7 environment of a commercial kitchen
• Mentor & Level Up: Act as a mentor to Senior and Mid-level engineers. You will set the standard for code quality, documentation, and automated testing, fostering a culture of technical excellence
• Partner Across Product and Engineering: Work with Engineering, Product, Design, and leadership to evaluate feasibility, shape roadmap decisions, and align technical investments with customer and business outcomes
• Improve Developer Productivity: Partner with enablement teams to improve CI/CD, automated testing, failure analysis, and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools

Requirements:

• • 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
• •Work authorization in the U.S. is required. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.•
• • 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