Senior Android Engineer - Remote India

Senior Android Engineer – Simple App

Resolve to Save Lives, Cardiovascular Health

Resolve to Save Lives is a global health organization that aims to save millions of lives by reducing preventable deaths from cardiovascular disease and to prevent infectious disease epidemics. Since September 2017, Resolve to Save Lives has worked closely with low- and middle-income country governments, the World Health Organization, academic and other civil society partners to build capacity for and implement a core package of interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease, the world’s leading cause of death. Read more here: RTSL .

The Senior Android Engineer contributes to Resolve to Save Lives’goal of partnering with countries to save 100 million lives in 30 years. They join our digital team providing software to support public health programs that aim to prevent cardiovascular disease, the number one cause of death in the world. Our Global team developed Simple ( simple.org ), a free, open source app used by healthcare workers to better manage patients with high blood pressure. By allowing doctors to track patient care over time, we can help them control blood pressure and prevent heart attacks and strokes. Today, Simple is used by thousands of nurses and doctors every day, treating over 2 million patients globally.

Simple is an offline-first app built for Android and written entirely in Kotlin. It is optimized to record a very high volume of patient follow-up visits. The key purpose of Simple is to record blood pressure, blood sugar, and medication data. Healthcare workers record every patient's visit in the app which is critical to patient care. One of the core tenets of the Simple app experience is to keep it fast for its users because every second counts. The median time to record a hypertension or diabetes follow-up visit is 14 seconds.

Position Summary

User experience is critical to our success, so the Senior Android engineer works with our design team to make sure that we’re iterating quickly, as getting health data into official hands will help save lives. Our app needs to be easy to understand for users and developers. This role has a real, tangible impact on peoples’ lives, playing a key role in helping Resolve to Save Lives grow the software, keep it fast and reliable while providing valuable data to public health programs we support. The role also contributes to building and nurturing the team, creating an engineering culture that is effective, supportive, and understands the big picture.

The Senior Android Engineer role will involve hands-on coding as well as strategic decision-making. The team is small and agile, and develops our roadmap against the overall Objective Key Results (OKRs) one quarter at a time, with an eye on end-of-year goals. The Resolve to Save Lives cardiovascular health team is looking to expand our user-base across multiple countries, which involves rolling out new features, enhancing our security posture, and boosting the scale and performance of the app. This role will be a voice in architectural and programmatic decisions.

Our Simple team prides itself on: delivering fast, simple software used by healthcare workers in clinics every day; working on solutions for tens of millions of patients; building holistic products; contributing to an open source project used in multiple countries; open, honest, and supportive collaboration among designers, Android developers, and Rails engineers; shipping and iterating instead of chasing perfection; and ensuring patient privacy and data security. The Senior Android Engineer is just as comfortable building new features as optimizing API contracts in collaboration with a server team. The Senior Android Engineer self-manages, plans their time wisely, and delivers straightforward solutions to vague problems.

Core Job Responsibilities
• Collaborating with our design and server team to add features that enable the healthcare workers for better patient care
• Managing delivery timelines and communicating with involved stakeholders as required
• Monitoring crash logs and metrics to ensure our app is working as intended in the field without any crashes
• Performance profiling and alerts to ensure our app scales to tens of millions of patients over time
• Prioritizing technical debt and feature work with the team

Required Qualifications
• At least 7-9 years of Android development experience
• At least one year of experience leading or mentoring other team members
• Demonstrated experience making architectural or strategic technical decisions for complex applications
• Very fluent in writing idiomatic Kotlin code
• Strong understanding of the Android platform with experience building multiple products
• Understanding the fundamentals of Android testing; we use unit and integration tests extensively in our project
• Familiarity with MVI/Redux based architecture (bonus if you are familiar with Spotify Mobius framework)
• Familiarity with Android Room and hands-on experience writing SQLite queries
• Familiarity with product analytics and performance monitoring
• Familiarity with CI/CD for release engineering of Android applications; we use GitHub Actions for CI and Bitrise for deployments
• Ability to produce high quality code with few structural issues
• Demonstrated ability to solve Android production challenges, especially at scale
• Capable of identifying and explaining trade-offs between technical options
• Have experience collaborating with design and product development teams
• Can serve as a liaison between government stakeholders and the development team
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written documentation

Location

This is a remote position. To ensure smooth collaboration with the team and responsiveness to our partners, we’re currently looking for engineers based in India . There may be occasional field visits to participate in user research.

Terms and Conditions

In addition to cultivating a diverse, supportive, and connected remote team and offering an opportunity to do work that matters, we provide: a competitive salary for our sector; health insurance for you and your immediate family; up-to-date laptop and any peripherals needed; an annual professional development budget; generous annual leave and contributions to a provident fund.

Resolve to Save Lives requires all employees regardless of location or job function to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Resolve to Save Lives complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.

We are grateful for your interest in our work and for your application. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications typically received, we can only reply to shortlisted candidates