Staff Software Engineer (Android)

SpotOn · Chicago, IL · 4 days ago

On-siteEngineering$188k–$230k/yrFull-time

About SpotOn

We’re not just building restaurant tech, we’re giving independent restaurants the tools to compete and win. From our award-winning point-of-sale to AI-powered profit tools, everything we do helps operators boost profit, work smarter, and keep their best people. And every solution is backed by real humans who actually give a sh*t about helping restaurants succeed.

About The Role

As a Staff Android Software Engineer in our Hospitality group, you are a technical leader and multiplier. You will serve as a key technical leader for the systems that power the daily operations of thousands of restaurants. This isn't just about building features; it’s about defining how we build them. You will oversee the technical direction of our Android-native POS and handheld applications, ensuring they are resilient, performant, and capable of handling complex hospitality workflows, from intricate order processing to seamless handoffs to third-party payment processors. You will work at the intersection of product vision and engineering excellence, solving the hardest technical challenges that face our mobile platform. This is a hands-on Staff IC role: you will write production code, lead design reviews, guide architecture, and create leverage through mentorship and cross-team execution.

What You’ll Do

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.

Qualifications

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.

Preferred Qualifications