About the position

Unleash the full power of edge devices by eliminating all the plumbing required to build amazing applications. As a global team, we prioritize trust, communication, and continuous improvement as our core values. We strongly believe in celebrating diversity and strive to create a team that encompasses a wide range of backgrounds, skill sets, and perspectives.

Ditto aims to expand the internet beyond traditional reach. Our groundbreaking software empowers devices to synchronize data in real-time, using cutting-edge peer-to-peer technology that runs on mobile, web, IoT, and server systems.

Help us ignite the future of data synchronization as a Software Engineer at Ditto! We are seeking a software engineer to design, implement and test mission critical applications that enable optimized command and control and situational awareness using Ditto's technology. You will work on a small team, partnered with end-users, that handles the full end-to-end implementation from design, coding, testing, deployment, and operational support and troubleshooting.

As a Software Engineer you will:

• Help Ditto’s customers solve complex issues with our solutions, e.g., resolving questions on SDKs, architecture, performance, scaling and everything in between
• Be an expert on best practices for developing mobile applications using Ditto at scale
• Advocate for customers’ needs, working with the engineering and product teams to debug and reproduce problem reports and escalate problems to include other team members as needed.
• Work with the developers and product managers to design and build interfaces (UI and API) to meet their needs.
• Support application development teams with delivery requirements and pipelines (security/authentication, integration and test, and production distributions)

What you’ll need:

• Minimum of 3 years in an active software development role
• Ability to develop complex applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Experience developing with networking protocols and communications (e.g. REST, TCP, UDP, QUIC)
• Experience developing with Bluetooth particularly in a mobile device context
• Experience developing with databases on mobile devices
• Experience developing with mapping software and APIs
• Read and understand the intent of code, logs and stack traces, debugging in distributed environments
• Knowledge of test automation frameworks, as well as common CI/CD practices
• Strong communication skills, particularly written communication skills. As a distributed team, async communication is the norm and the development process often includes written architecture and design documents.
• U.S. citizenship, and an ability to obtain a security clearance

Nice to Haves:

• Development background in multiple languages: Kotlin, Swift, Java, Rust, Javascript
• Experience on multiple mobile frameworks: iOS, Flutter, React Native
• Experience with Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) plugin architecture
• Experience building libraries/frameworks/SDKs for distributed platforms
• Experience with mesh networks, BLE, Wifi, and other mobile transports/radios
• Experience with network administration, performance testing, or troubleshooting