Staff Android Engineer — Lead Scalable Offline‑First POS

SpotOn; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 188,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k with company match

RSUs

Paid vacation

Job summary

SpotOn in the United States is seeking a Staff Android Software Engineer to lead the Android native POS and hospitality apps. You will shape technical direction, write production code, and mentor others while solving complex workflows in a fast-paced restaurant tech environment.

This role emphasizes offline-first design, real-time syncing, and performance at scale, with collaboration across product, design, and leadership to deliver reliable, customer-focused software.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building Android applications at scale.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year architectural roadmap for our Android applications, including offline-first and real-time syncing capabilities.
• Lead high-impact technical projects spanning multiple squads, e.g., modularizing codebase and UI layer modernization with Jetpack Compose.
• Own stability and performance of the hospitality suite in a 24/7 kitchen environment.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers to raise code quality and testing standards.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and leadership to align technical investments with business outcomes.
• Improve CI/CD, automated testing, failure analysis, and AI-assisted engineering practices.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Architecture patterns

Performance debugging

Leadership influence

Communication

Tools

Room/SQLite

Jetpack Compose

CI/CD tooling

Job description

SpotOn in the United States is seeking a Staff Android Software Engineer to lead the Android native POS and hospitality apps. You will shape technical direction, write production code, and mentor others while solving complex workflows in a fast-paced restaurant tech environment.

This role emphasizes offline-first design, real-time syncing, and performance at scale, with collaboration across product, design, and leadership to deliver reliable, customer-focused software.