Senior Android Developer, ATAK

Newmoyer Geospatial Solutions LLC; Charleston (SC); Remote; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flexible health insurance

Life and short-term disability

401(k) retirement plan

4 weeks paid time off, increasing with

Zusammenfassung

Newmoyer Geospatial Solutions LLC in Charleston, SC, is seeking a Senior Android Developer to build ATAK plugins for a medical common operating picture used by military medical teams. You will design and implement plugin UI, handle CoT messaging, and ensure robust performance in offline and degraded network conditions.

Join a distributed team working with a large prime contractor, owning the end-to-end plugin lifecycle, and contributing to secure coding practices and DoD security requirements.

Qualifikationen

• Five or more years of professional Android development shipping production apps.
• Strong Java and Kotlin.
• ATAK plugin development experience with the ATAK SDK (CIV or MIL).
• Familiarity with Cursor on Target (CoT) and TAK Server.
• Mobile application architecture, lifecycle management, and performance optimization.
• RESTful web service integration.
• Android Studio, Gradle, Git, and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment on an agile team.
• U.S. citizenship. Active Secret or Top Secret clearance preferred, otherwise ability to obtain and maintain one.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and maintain ATAK plugins in Java and Kotlin.
• Build operator-facing Android UI that works for users under stress, with gloves on, in bad light
• Implement CoT message handling and integration with TAK Server and other backend services
• Work with map layers, overlays, and geospatial data inside ATAK
• Handle offline, disconnected, and low-bandwidth operation gracefully
• Mentor junior developers and review code and design decisions across the mobile team
• Work day to day with a distributed partner engineering team: sprint planning, code reviews, joint debugging, release coordination
• Support integration events, demos, and test activity, including occasional troubleshooting under time pressure
• Follow secure coding practices and support DoD security and configuration requirements

Kenntnisse

Android development

Java

Kotlin

ATAK SDK experience

CoT/TAK knowledge

RESTful APIs

CI/CD workflows

Linux

Git

US citizenship

Tools

ATAK SDK

Android Studio

Gradle

TAK Server

TAK Product Center (TPC) SDK

Jobbeschreibung

About NGS

NGS builds modern geospatial and C5ISR software for the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal customers. We've been at this since 2009, supporting programs across the U.S. military and the intelligence community. We're headquartered in the Charleston, SC area and we hold a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract.

We leverage open-source technology and deep mission expertise to deliver secure, scalable systems that solve real problems for warfighters and government agencies. Our flagship platform, CoreSpatial, is built on GeoServer, PostGIS, GDAL, MapStore2, and CesiumJS. We're serious about open source and stay engaged with the projects we build on.

We are a small, focused team with a strong track record of delivering complex solutions under real constraints. Our customers rely on us to cut through the noise, move fast, and deliver results that work. More on who we are, the team, and what we do for government customers.

The Role

We're hiring a Senior Android Developer to build and extend ATAK plugins for a medical common operating picture. The users are military medical teams, and the job is getting them the right picture of patients, resources, and the operating environment on the device they already carry.

The work is Java and Kotlin on Android, inside the ATAK plugin framework. You'll build plugin UI, handle Cursor on Target messaging, work with map overlays and geospatial data, and make sure it all holds up when the network doesn't. Disconnected and degraded comms are the normal case here, not the edge case.

You’ll be part of a distributed team working alongside a large prime contractor, in their tracker and on their release schedule. Being effective across company boundaries matters as much as the code does.

This is a senior seat. You should be able to own an ATAK plugin end to end, set technical direction, and be the person the team asks when something in ATAK or tactical mobile gets hard. We expect customer-facing production code from your first weeks, not after a long ramp. We are also hiring a Junior Android Developer alongside this role, and you will help bring them up.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ATAK plugins in Java and Kotlin
• Build operator-facing Android UI that works for users under stress, with gloves on, in bad light
• Implement CoT message handling and integration with TAK Server and other backend services
• Work with map layers, overlays, and geospatial data inside ATAK
• Handle offline, disconnected, and low-bandwidth operation gracefully
• Mentor junior developers and review code and design decisions across the mobile team
• Work day to day with a distributed partner engineering team: sprint planning, code reviews, joint debugging, release coordination
• Support integration events, demos, and test activity, including occasional troubleshooting under time pressure
• Follow secure coding practices and support DoD security and configuration requirements

Required

• Five or more years of professional Android development experience shipping production apps
• Strong Java and Kotlin
• ATAK plugin development experience with the ATAK SDK (CIV or MIL). This is the part we can't teach fast.
• Familiarity with Cursor on Target (CoT) and TAK Server
• Mobile application architecture, lifecycle management, and performance optimization
• RESTful web service integration
• Android Studio, Gradle, Git, and modern CI/CD workflows
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment on an agile team
• U.S. citizenship. Active Secret or Top Secret clearance preferred, otherwise ability to obtain and maintain one.

Preferred

• Experience with the TAK Product Center (TPC) SDK and TAK.gov developer resources
• Experience with medical, casualty tracking, or MEDEVAC workflows in a military setting
• Experience building for disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DIL) environments
• Experience supporting DoD exercises or operational deployments of tactical mobile systems
• Familiarity with geospatial data and GIS concepts (coordinate systems, map services, MIL-STD-2525 symbology)
• Python, Go, or another modern OOP language
• AWS and RHEL-based development environments
• Experience with Android security hardening and STIG requirements
• Experience working remotely on a distributed or multi-company development team
• Prior DoD or IC program experience
• Military service, especially as a medic, corpsman, or in a C4I role

What You Get

• Real systems, real users. What you build gets fielded and used by people taking care of wounded service members. You will know when it works. See our case studies and capabilities.
• A rare problem set. Medical data and tactical mobile software mostly live in separate worlds. This job sits in the seam.
• Room to set direction. As a small business, you are shaping how the work gets done from day one instead of inheriting someone else's architecture and waiting your turn.
• Flexibility. We support remote work and flexible schedules. We care about results and reliability more than hours.

Benefits

• Flexible health insurance. Choose from a range of options that fit your situation.
• Life and short-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan with competitive options.
• Four weeks of paid time off, moving to five weeks with tenure.

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