Senior Android Engineer - Armaments Research Company, Inc.
Ashburn, VA 20147
About the Job
Description
The Senior Android Engineer is responsible for building and supporting our mobile application suite that includes applications specific to the military. You will be building and developing our data collection applications and situational awareness tools. You are part of a high caliber team dedicated to both mission and advancing ground-breaking technology. You will have the opportunity to learn and expand your own knowledge base, leveraging a highly skilled team of co-workers while working remotely. As ARC’s senior mobile app developer, you will be independently and collaboratively building Android applications that link ARC’s cutting edge IoT sensors with an AI-enabled cloud that provides unprecedented situational awareness of events on the ground for DoD clients. You will closely collaborate with both firmware and cloud teams, operating as the central communications and user engagement point of contact for field deployed devices.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with your team’s stakeholders in product management and throughout ARC to elicit and define requirements
- Promote continuous improvement of the product by collaborating with ARC’s test engineers and subject matter experts
- Own the successful delivery of technical objectives through each step of the engineering process and product lifecycle
- Drive technical direction and lead cross-functional development
- Support growth in your team members through mentorship
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve Android applications
- Interface with Software teams to push both post-mission and near real-time streaming data from IoT sensors to a cloud environment
- Interface with IoT devices over Bluetooth and other wireless connection interfaces
- Interface with our Firmware team to seamlessly tie streaming data together for situational awareness
- Develop new mobile applications to be used by various DoD branches for unprecedented accountability and insights
- Support existing applications used in battlefield and training scenarios by ARC clients
- Leverage mobile edge networks for accelerated processing and ML insights
- Be an active advocate for mobile applications at ARC
- Partner with various engineering teams including Research, Firmware, Software, and Data Science in Agile software development sprints
- Provide SME level experience and guidance for mobile applications at ARC
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
This position will require access to restricted information and facilities protected under U.S. laws and regulations, including the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM). Please note that any offer for employment will be conditioned on any required authorization to receive access to such restricted information and facilities necessary to perform the responsibilities of the position.
Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. Citizenship to meet federal government security screening requirements required for this role. The successful candidate must be a U.S. Citizen and otherwise eligible to obtain access to classified information and facilities necessary to perform the responsibilities of the position.
Required Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- 5 years of experience developing object-oriented software applications and with data structures and algorithms
- At least 2 years of mobile application development experience building Android applications
- Experience using Kotlin, Android lifecycle, Android test frameworks, and dependency injection in production applications
- Use of coroutines, flows and dispatchers to handle async programming
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products and applications in the Google Play store, and 1 year of experience with system design and architecture
- Experience working in Agile software development processes
- Experience with Git/GitLab/SVN/Bitbucket/etc. for source control
- 2 years of experience as a mentor, tech lead OR leading an engineering team
- Experience building and maintaining mobile CI/CD pipelines
Desired Experience
- Prior military and/or law enforcement experience. Military Combat Arms or Special Operations experience is a plus.
- Experience with Bluetooth or WiFi enabled IoT devices integrated with mobile applications
- Building and distributing Android libraries and/or SDKs
- Experience in iOS development
- Experience working with and/or developing ATAK plugins
- 1 or more shipped mobile applications
- Active security clearance or the ability to obtain one
Benefits
Equity Options Grant
401k
Unlimited PTO
Employer Paid Employee Medical, Dental, Vision
401k
Unlimited PTO
Employer Paid Employee Medical, Dental, Vision
Source : Armaments Research Company, Inc.