Senior Android Developer - ATAK Plugins (Remote Friendly)

Newmoyer Geospatial Solutions LLC; Charleston (SC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible health insurance

Life and short-term disability

401(k) retirement plan

4 weeks paid time off, increasing with

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Skills

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

Job description

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.