Senior Mobile/TAK Developer

Description

The company is a technology firm inside a larger global organization, with more than 13,000 people serving the US federal government.

Its clients work in defense, national security, public safety, civilian agencies and military health.

This is a remote role on an existing team, in a setting where new technologies arrive often and there is always more to learn.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Android apps and plugins for ATAK and related TAK products, including TAK Server, WinTAK and iTAK.
• Create and extend ATAK plugins with the TPC SDK, connecting CoT messaging, map and geospatial overlays, and situational awareness data feeds.
• Own the mobile application architecture, covering local data storage, plugin lifecycle and integration with TAK Server APIs.
• Work directly with government customers and end users to turn operational and tactical needs into mobile features.
• Ship customer-facing production code from day one.
• Mentor junior developers and review code and design decisions across the mobile and TAK team.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of native Android development in Java, Kotlin or both.
• You have 5+ years of mobile architecture work, including lifecycle management and performance optimization.
• You have 5+ years using source control such as GIT.
• You have 5+ years of ATAK plugin work or hands-on experience in the TAK ecosystem, such as TAK Server, CoT messaging, WinTAK or iTAK.
• Bonus: experience with the TPC SDK and TAK.gov developer resources.
• Bonus: familiarity with geospatial and mapping libraries and symbology standards such as MIL-STD-2525.
• Bonus: experience with Python, Go or another modern OOP language.
• Bonus: familiarity with SQL and NoSQL.
• Bonus: use of static analysis, unit testing and continuous integration.
• Bonus: experience supporting DoD exercises or operational deployments of tactical mobile systems.
• Bonus: handling more than 1 project at once.
• Bonus: experience working in AWS environments for development, testing and integration.
• Bonus: experience in a RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) development environment.
• Bonus: RESTful web service integration.
• Bonus: work in a Linux environment with an understanding of agile development.

Conditions

Remote work as part of an existing team.

As local law requires, the company publishes pay ranges based on labor costs. For this role in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and the District of Columbia, the base pay range is $142,600 - $204,300 USD.

Pay varies by office location, role, skill set and experience.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, with no fixed deadline.

The company is committed to equal opportunity and a culture where everyone is respected and included.

Benefits

• A wide variety of benefits.
• Hands-on experience, certifications and industry training to help you grow, learn and thrive.