Senior Android Engineer

Senior Android Engineer

Department: Customer Success

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Croatia

Reporting To: Svitlana Blazhenko

Description

Newfire Global Partners is a leading technology firm that specializes in building transformative software solutions for some of the world’s most innovative companies. With a presence across four continents, Newfire Global brings deep expertise in digital healthcare, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise technology. The firm’s track record of delivering scalable, high-impact solutions has made it a trusted partner for organizations seeking to drive meaningful change through technology.

We are passionate about the purpose-driven mission to help improve the quality of care for patients and are building a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. We are a fully funded company founded by serial entrepreneurs with a stable client base.

Opportunity for impact

Newfire Global Partners, a leader in developing disruptive healthcare technology, collaborates with Fortune 500 companies and start-ups to drive transformation.

Newfire is seeking a Senior Android Engineer

What's the Project? Join the team that is building a high-impact clinical software solution designed to modernize real-time communication within busy healthcare environments. Developed as a high-performance interactive application for large-format displays, it replaces traditional dry-erase boards with dynamic, centralized patient data, shift schedules, and key operational insights. Candidates joining this project will tackle exciting engineering challenges at the intersection of complex UI/UX and robust device-level integration, and will collaborate with hardware/device partners to ensure the application seamlessly integrates with specialized display units and system-level permissions

Your day-to-day activities:

• Develop, test, and maintain the high-performance background services and system-level code that powers interactive large-format displays and bedside TV applications

• Collaborate with hardware partners to implement device-level capabilities, privileged app permissions, and custom OS integrations (such as remote resets and log capture)

• Evaluate technical tradeoffs and prototype solutions to inform core roadmap decisions

• Participate in active sprint ceremonies, engage in peer code reviews, and work closely with product management and client engineering leads to execute on parallel technical tracks

You’re a perfect match if you have:

• 6+ years of Android engineering experience, with a strong focus on system-level components, background processing, and service architecture

• Strong knowledge of the Android SDK

• Expertise in Foreground Services, process lifecycle management, Low Memory Killer (LMK) tuning, thread scheduling, and preventing OS-level service termination (Doze mode/battery optimization bypasses)

• Experience building resilient background sync engines using WebSockets, MQTT, or gRPC

• Deep understanding of Inter-Process Communication (IPC)

• Strong emphasis on clean code, modular design, state management, and comprehensive unit/integration testing

• Strong understanding of REST architecture

• Strong knowledge of OOP principles and design

• Problem-solving skills

• Fast research & learning skills

• Clear, confident verbal & written communication skills to collaborate directly with cross-functional product and engineering stakeholders 

Nice to have:

• AOSP / Embedded Android: hands-on exposure to custom Android Open Source Project (AOSP) builds or custom Android firmware/ROM configurations 

• Deep knowledge of Android Enterprise & MDM APIs: Hands-on experience with DevicePolicyManager, Device Owner /

• Profile Owner modes, Lock Task mode (Kiosk), and enterprise provisioning

• Hardware & OEM Collaboration: Experience working alongside OEM hardware vendors (e.g., custom board bring-ups, serial communication, hardware vendor APIs).

• Healthcare & Compliance: Familiarity with clinical device deployments, HIPAA compliance, or secure on-device data storage protocols

• Flutter / Cross-Platform: Experience with (or a willingness to learn and contribute to) our cross-platform Flutter application as needed

Please note that employment will be contingent upon providing documentation verifying your legal work authorization in the country of residence, in accordance with applicable law.