Lead Android Developer(Java/Kotlin) For a Leading Healthcare Non-Profit in Jaipur

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

Projects and Responsibilities:

• Applications
• Community Health Integrated Platform for ASHAs, ANMs and MOCs
• Khushi Baby Reproductive and Child Health Solution
• Decision Support Tool for Community Health Officers
• Health Worker Diligence and High-Risk Prediction module in collaboration with Google AI for Social Good
• IoT device integration, facial biometric module integration, NFC device integration for decentralized health records, NDHM implementation
• Health and Wellness Center Digital Platform
• Ensuring end-to-end encryption, version control and backwards compatibility, automated testing, systematic documentation
• Conducting field tests and analyzing automated user metrics to understand and improve user interface

Benefits:

• Medical insurance
• Free medical second opinions from the CEO
• Flexible work policies for those menstruating, needing time for the grievance of a loved one, religious fasting, etc.
• Monthly field visits
• Make an impact through your daily work
• Learning opportunities with world-class research institutions (Yale, Harvard)