Software Engineer

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Software Engineer:

Smartphone App Development with Focus on High Performance Algorithm Implementation

Location: Remote. Immediate Start - 2 positions in total

1 position: Android App development oriented AND 1 position: iOS App development oriented

Abingdon Health is mobilising its rapid test operations to scale-up the deployment of rapid diagnostic solutions in response to the global COVID-19 outbreak. Due to significant demand for our services we are recruiting for experienced personnel to join our team immediately.

Abingdon Health is a global leader in the contract development and manufacture of lateral flow rapid tests and reader systems, working on behalf of clients across many industries. Our instrumentation and app development team have developed benchtop readers and Smartphone based next generation reader technology, such as Abingdon Health's AppDx^TM platform. AppDx^TM uses proprietary technology to enhance rapid test results to make monitoring simpler, faster, low-cost, and traceable. AppDx^TM is a game changer in rapid-testing, with its ability to capture complimentary data such as GPS mapping, patient ID and date stamping for analysis in a central cloud or data-hub. Thus, allowing stakeholders to access and analyse data as part of a streamlined diagnostic process for improved and faster outcome management.

Our team offers you the opportunity to work on tackling challenges in the real world which have a direct impact on our health, environment, and the entire world. You will get to experience business processes not only in software development but also in quality assurance, management, and diagnostics technical domains. You will develop and learn new skills and techniques and gain tangible experience working in a highly multidisciplinary environment.

Job description

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Design and develop high-performance, high-accuracy and high-quality software for measuring lateral-flow tests on smartphones

Deploy the algorithms on a smartphone platform, Android or iOS

Setup CI/CD pipelines or alternative build systems

Performance optimisation and adaptive architecture design

Design, plan, implement unit testing, integration testing

Help setup software development, testing and V&V processes for smartphone app development

Create reports on experiments, testing and issues using a structured and scientific approach

Analyse and understand the capability, limitations and requirements of smartphone platform and complement our team

Work within an interdisciplinary team for product development

Develop testing and validation processes around developed app

Good technical and software documentation around software development

Work with external software development teams for technology integration

Work within the company's quality management system for new product development

Work within project management/administration processes

Essential Training and Technical Competency

Graduate or post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Information technology, Physics, Mathematics, or equivalent domains

Bachelors candidates must have 3+ years' experience in developing smartphone applications within an industry or research environment or equivalent experience of personally developed apps showcase, or as self-employed developer (however solely forking and building the open source sample apps unfortunately wouldn't be considered as appropriate experience)

Strong programming skills and experience in Java/Kotlin for Android or Swift programming language for iOS

Experience with performance analysis and memory optimisation using development environments for Android or iOS

Flair for benchmarking and optimization

Proficiency using Git version control system, (UI based or command line)

Good programming skills in Python. Experience working with Jupyter Notebooks and mid-size or larger Python projects

Solid Knowledge of Object-oriented Design, Object-Oriented Programming

Understanding of SOLID principles and software architecture design patterns

Proficiency in using Microsoft Office: Word, Excel and Power Point

Proficiency in English, both spoken and written

Specific requirements if applying for Android App Development:

Understanding of interfaces, abstract classes, multi-threading

Android libraries, packages, Code Obfuscation

Android SDK knowledge, especially Camera2 API or CameraX API

Experience supporting Android phone variants for UI layout

JAVA Native Interface (JNI) within Android studio

Able to write wrappers, Gradle build scripts

Specific requirements if applying for iOS App Development:

iOS SDK knowledge, especially AVFoundation, Vision, Camera, UIKit

Experience with iOS frameworks

Integration of C/C++ library within the app

Clear understanding of modern features such as delegates, guards etc.

Personal Qualities

A proactive attitude, a desire to research and solve problems and create solutions

High level analytical capability, and ability to communicate complex information clearly

Demonstrable excellence in problem solving within fixed timelines

Flexibility and the ability to effectively work on multiple concurrent projects

Ability to work within multidisciplinary team of developers, scientists, engineers

Desired (in the order of priority)

Demonstrated skills to implement real time image processing algorithms on smartphone platforms Android or iOS

Prior experience working in a regulated environment (such as ISO 13485/IEC 62304 or equivalent)

Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations