Senior Android Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for an Android-focused engineer to join our growing tech team, working on either our core Simprints ID platform or specific projects. You will also be able to contribute to our journey as we begin to open-source our products to help drive market adoption of biometrics. In addition, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining Simprints applications and their integrations, both with our internal back-end services and external data collection applications.

You will work on an agile, collaborative team with a commitment to clean code and robust design, along with a strong culture of continuous learning and improvement. You will help the project management team assess feature feasibility and create a plan of action. If building technology for global health sounds exciting, we want to meet you!

This is a remote job, We like collaboration and speak to each other several times a day – between 10am and 3pm UK time. To keep the collaborative team spirit we are looking for colleagues in GMT -2/+3 – or colleagues who are able to relocate to the UK. At the time being, we will only be considering applicants within these parameters.

Your impact

At Simprints, we want everyone to feel ownership of the tasks they are working on, starting from your first day. Within the first month, we’ll help you set your environment up, and you will be contributing improvements to our products in no time. By your third month, you will be comfortable building new functionality and will have a good understanding of how our products are used. In six months, you will lead with a high degree of autonomy the design and development for our roadmap and projects. 

Responsibilities:

• Design technical solutions to help Simprints scale to support projects all over the world
• Team with other Android engineers to write robust code that is easy to test and maintain, and runs reliably in challenging settings
• Work on cross-functional projects by collaborating with back-end engineers, data analysts and external stakeholders
• Mentor junior engineers by guiding them through code reviews and making design decisions
• Ensure that the products we build are both performant and secure
• Create specification documents that outline designed solutions and a plan of action to achieve them
• Suggest and implement improvements in the way we build our product.

Requirements:

• A passionate problem solver who can help us find a way to achieve our mission
• Deep understanding of the Android SDK with at least 5 years of experience building, integrating, testing, and supporting Android applications for mobile and tablet devices
• Well versed in the best practices of secure application development
• Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle including application architecture design
• Experience working within a team with a focus on code quality, where testing, code reviews, and continuous integration are the norm
• Working knowledge of Kotlin (our code base is written entirely in Kotlin)
• Experience with Coroutines, Koin and Android Jetpack, especially Architecture Components (ViewModel, LiveData, Room, WorkManager)