Remote Android Developer Jobs in Herndon, VA (NOW HIRING)

Company Description
Who Are We?
NewPage is a digital health solutions company. We devote ourselves to advance the quality of life by enhancing the health and optimizing the longevity of human race. We do this by, passionately building futuristic technologies for global organizations across healthcare ecosystem. We partake at every stage from problem definition, strategy & service design, user research, UX design, and agile software development - utilizing lean practices to deliver and validate highly innovative digital health solutions that drive user value and business transformation. NewPage is recognized by 'CIO's Review 'as "Top 50 Promising Health Care Solution Providers"
What We Offer?
We are shaping a company that workssmart and growsfaster. We offer you a flexible and remote work environment with intelligent colleagues, seamlessly collaborating to build inventive technologies that solve or simplify our clients 'business challenges. Being part of the team, you will enjoy an employee-centric culture, sharing and caring peers, myriad opportunities for learning, generous earnings and ample development and growth. Who we need? We are looking for a seasoned Android Mobile App developer with solid development experience to work on a breakthrough project. Our team is located across the globe, and we need someone in the EST time zone, as we will need to ship equipment to test, modify the code and recommend changes. This is an excellent opportunity to develop, test, and lock down the code before the product is designed in full scale.
Job Description
Role Summary:
We want the Mobile Development Technical Lead to begin by engaging directly in one of our high priority digital companion projects - GroAssist. We anticipate the resource gaining knowledge in our technology, platforms, processes, and people through this project. Over time we will expand the scope of the role to span multiple projects. The resource will act as a technical adviser at crucial design milestones for projects, provide oversight/direction to development teams (e.g., ensuring development standards are being followed), help evaluate technical resources being screened for projects, support new project cost estimation, etc.
Key Responsibilities: GroAssist Mobile App Development: • Become part of the Agile project team and participate in scrum calls. • Along with the rest of the development team, take on the development of user stories. • Take ownership of the code quality and structure of the hybrid mobile app and the native code portions of the app (Swift, Kotlin, Java). • Lead, direct, and guide the development team to create a well-engineered app. • Review the current implementation of feature configurability and lead the development of a best practices approach. • Ensure the development team follows best practices in Agile development (Jira, estimation, testing, code reviews, user story development, merge requests, dev-ops, etc.) • Contribute to Jira user story reviews and to test plan reviews. • Troubleshooting defects and assisting the development team in troubleshooting. • Work and collaborate with the enterprise architect to ensure the best overall design. GroAssist Bluetooth Device Integration: • (Note: an injection device is being developed that will share data via Bluetooth with the GroAssist mobile app) • Work with the business requirements team and the Digital device team to document the Digital device's data and data flow specifications. Ensure that the specification supports the anticipated user stories. • Lead and participate in developing Bluetooth device integration for both iOS and Android. • Apply best practices in reviewing, reusing, improving, and extending existing Digital software modules. Technical Lead for Patient Solutions: • After gaining hands-on experience via the GroAssist project, the resource will act as Technical Lead for other (and multiple) Patient Solution mobile app development projects • Maintain awareness of mobile app development ecosystem, existing SDKs, back-end systems and associated best practices. • Ensure delivery teams are developing to correct platform specifications, are following required unit test rigor, are leveraging available re-usable components, etc. • Contribute to project planning: estimating resources and cost, screening proposed development teams, performing solutions architecture, etc. pg. 1 QUALIFICATIONS AND
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS (INCLUDE 'BASIC' AND 'PREFERRED' QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS) •
5+ years of work experience as a Mobile (iOS and Android) or Web Developer • 2+ years of experience in Ionic/Capacitor hybrid app development • Strong attention to detail, including writing clean code, and following coding standards • Experience writing Mobile Applications that interact with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) peripheral devices using Gatt Protocol • Excellent experience with the Agile Methodology, documenting requirements, and assisting junior-level developers • Strong Experience with OOP (object-oriented programming) • Extensive knowledge of at least one Web Development Framework (Angular Preferred) • Experience working with JavaScript / TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JSON • Experience working with APIs (RESTful preferred) • Experience working with version control tools (Git Preferred) • Basic experience working with native mobile app languages (Swift, Kotlin, etc.)
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