- Location
- Zagreb, Croatia
- Workplace
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Pinpoint
Description
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
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.
Skills
FlutterAndroidRESTgRPCComplianceHIPAA