Senior Android Developer

QED (https://qed.ai) is a tech company focused on public health and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. We build the digital infrastructure and AI used at the intersection of aid and scientific inquiry, including surveillance of HIV and malaria, and nutrient analysis of crops and soils, working at national-scale in several African countries. Our funding comes from multiple philanthropic and governmental organizations, including the Global Fund, Gates Foundation, CDC, and USAID.

We are looking for a senior Android developer to join our team in Warsaw. Desired skills include:

• +4 years of experience with building Android applications that have been deployed to the Play Store and actively used in production environments
• Experience using Kotlin for Android development, along with basics of Kotlin coroutines
• Experience with Android jetpack
• strong background in software engineering, version control, writing readable code and tests, robust design, and basic data structures and algorithms
• working proficiency (≥C1) in speaking, reading, and typing English (≥45 words per minute)
• logical reasoning and ability to express ideas clearly
• willingness and interest in working with people from other cultures
• emotional resilience and social intelligence
• and you have to care about the work that you do
• and you have to be optimistic at least sometimes, although pessimism tends to be useful

Below are additional skills that are a bonus, but are not required:

• prior experience in leading a software engineering team
• domain knowledge and/or interest in the sustainable development goals, particularly in public health, agriculture, and assisting developing countries
• experience with computer vision
• experience with gRPC

What can you expect:

• unusual, socially conscious projects
• little bureaucracy
• significant ownership
• a mix of product, internal platform, and client integration work
• ability and encouragement to explore technologies other than your main expertise
• optional travel to learn more about problems we're trying to solve

Requires a full-time commitment physically based in Warsaw, Poland, with a hybrid of remote and in-person work throughout the week.