Job title: Android Software Developer

Location: Skopje

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.

The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

 

In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better

Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips’ purpose has never been more relevant. So whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you’ll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all. You are going to be responsible for the development and maintenance of applications, your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working along-side other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

 

You are responsible for

• Developing native Android applications and have an understanding of Android design patterns, memory management, file I/O, concurrency and multithreading
• Working with network & battery optimizations, APIs, external libs, sdks, Analytics, UI, visualizations & animations
• Unit Testing and TDD practices with usage of Junit/Mockito/Espresso kind of test frameworks
• Publishing applications in an Android marketplace, help in the process of making the app live
• Able to fix occurring bugs and iteratively improve the app, include newer features and keep the app up to date with all the Android updates / libraries that will be released
• Scanning for new upcoming technologies and be able to evaluate and implement the same to enhance the development efficiency
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate into technical requirements
• Experience of working on applications with react native is a plus
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery is a plus

 

You are a part of
Ambulatory Monitoring & Diagnostics (AM&D) is part of the Philips Connected Care business cluster. Philips BioTelemetry is part of the AM&D business and provides remote cardiac monitoring services for more than one million patients per year. Philips acquired BioTelemetry in early 2021. The combination of Philips and BioTelemetry results in a global leader in patient care management solutions for the hospital and the home, a leading U.S.-based provider of remote cardiac diagnostics and monitoring.

 

To succeed in this role, you’ll need a customer-first attitude and the following

• B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA or equivalent qualification or relevant working experience on similar position  
• Experience with Android Java-based mobile applications and systems development
• Strong command on Android Java and exposure towards Android SDK
• Strong knowledge of various packages on the Android App development stack layouts, intents, widgets, content providers, touch handling, drawing, location services, media interfaces, network, storage, security / cryptography, sqlite, etc.
• Knowledge of web services and serialization techniques like REST, SOAP, XML, JSON & framing
• Strong penchant for Object Oriented Design and CS fundamentals
• Experience of working with version control, bug tracking, continuous integration and other productivity enhancement software like TFS, Bugzilla, Jira etc.
• Prior experience in working in Agile software methodologies would be a plus
• Taking responsibility and ownership in teamwork, team player with good communication skills

 

How we work at Philips

Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.
Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way. Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

 

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:
We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.
We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.
We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

 

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.