Android Engineer (f/m)

ShareTheMeal

ShareTheMeal is a non-profit fundraising initiative of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). We raise funds for WFP to deliver food to children in areas of greatest need. As of today, approximately 100 million children are severely underweight. It costs USD 0.50 to feed one child for a day. We seek to increase funds available in the fight against hunger by introducing innovation through a smartphone app for micro-donations.

This smartphone app is supposed to constitute a significant component of WFP’s future fundraising efforts, amplifying existing marketing and fundraising activities, as well as corporate partnerships on a global level. We soft-launched in June 2015 and rolled out globally in November 2015. The app currently has ~330,000 active users who have shared ~3.3 million meals. Google, Apple and Amazon app stores featured the app; the media coverage was very positive. More information can be found on our website: https://sharethemeal.org/

Your Job

As an Android engineer for ShareTheMeal you are responsible for the technical development of our multi-platform mobile app with a global reach. You’ll be responsible for developing a slim and exciting Android app that makes it easy for our users to help make this world a better place. In particular, you will be iterating and a/b testing new features and helping us personalize the user experience.
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Your Qualification**

● You have 3+ years experience in developing native mobile apps for Android.

● You have extensive knowledge of mobile design and development
as well as quality assurance and code reviews.

● You have built large scale apps with a global reach and engaged daily active users

Remuneration

● You’ll receive a competitive salary.

● You’ll help to save the world from hunger and provide children with a chance to make a difference on this planet.

● You’ll work in a great team of enthusiasts who want to change the way every one of us can make this world a better place.

● Initially, you’ll receive a consultancy contract with the United Nations World Food Programme for a period of 3-6 months.

● You won’t receive any shares in the project as this is a non-profit initiative and hence no one can receive any shares.

The Stack

Our backend is written in node.js and runs on AWS (EC2, S3, Opswork, Cloudwatch, SNS, CloudFront, Route53, Amazon RDS, etc.) with Continuous Integration and Test Automation. We are developing native on iOS with Swift and for Android in Java. Other tools include Contentful and Loco.

The Team

Sebastian Stricker - Founder and passionate about social innovation and development, entrepreneurship, and traveling. Sebastian holds a PhD in politics and an MBA from the University of Vienna.

On the product development side, we currently have four people in our awesome team doing Product & Technology, Backend Development (node.js), iOS Development (Swift) and Android Development (Java). We are looking to grow the team by three or four more members within the next half year.

Appendix

(f/m) stands for (either female or male) and is a necessary attribute within job descriptions in various countries.

Your Application

Please send your full application with references to 42@sharethemeal.org.