Lead Android Developer - Kotlin Programming (5-9 yrs)

Job Description :

About the organisation :

The organisation's primary areas of focus include digital health solutions, health program strengthening, and research & development. Its flagship digital health solution, the Community Health Integrated Platform (CHIP), has been utilized by over 70,000 community health workers and 40,000 villages, reaching 45 million beneficiaries. Among these, over 5 million individuals have been identified with high-risk health conditions and have had their health monitored at the grassroots level. - The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has allocated over 160 crore rupees (20 million USD) to support the platform's scale-up.

We are seeking a mature, motivated, mission-driven Lead Android Engineer to join our lean technology team to help sustain existing solutions and help us build out our forthcoming Community Health Integrated Platform to serve as a model innovation for the Central Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. This frontend engineer will work with a technical team of 60+ members consisting of Android Developers, Backend Developers, QA, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Designers, STA-Arch, implementation lead, program lead, Impact Lead, Development lead, etc. to build and maintain robust, compliant, and scalable Android application modules. We are looking for passionate, self-starters and team players who want to make a positive impact on the health of families from underserved communities by applying their deep knowledge of technology.

What they require :

- A willingness to put our mission first and to go to the last mile to ensure our solution is creating impact

- 5+ years of professional working experience in developing android applications

- More than 3 years of experience in leading a team of developers.

- Experienced in leading a team on various projects.

- Good exposure to Android Studio/Android SDKs with Android tools, Kotlin, and frameworks.

- Research and suggest new mobile products, applications and protocols.

- Working in close collaboration with back-end developers, designers, and the rest of the team to deliver well-architected and high-quality solutions.

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

- Familiarity with industry-standard design patterns for most commonly encountered situations is a must

- A solid understanding of operating system fundamentals such as processes, inter-process communication, multi-threading primitives, race conditions and deadlocks

- Good knowledge of multithreading, process optimisation, and system resource planning in native Android

- Experience using Web Services and Data parsing using JSON, XML etc.

- Good knowledge of OO designs, database design, data structures and algorithms

- Experience working in an Agile team, familiarity with Agile best practices, and ability to manage individual task deliverables

- Possessing the sense of user engagement in order to deep dive for understanding the real end users' needs and to improve the product over time.

- Work closely with developers, backend lead, product and project managers to meet project deadlines.

- Notwithstanding anything contained

What they prefer :

- Background in public health, ICT4D, and digital health standard frameworks

- Experience with building offline-online capable apps

- Experience with facial biometrics, Near Field Communication, edge analytics

- Development of currently live Android applications with over 1,000 downloads and 4+ rating on Playstore