ODK is open-source software that helps users build powerful offline forms to collect the data they need wherever it is. It’s trusted by leading social impact organizations like the World Health Organization, Red Cross, the Carter Center, and more.

ODK is led by a small, diverse, and distributed team. We care deeply about having social impact, building open-source software, and empowering our community.

About the job

ODK is looking for a Software Engineer to join our core team. The ideal candidate is passionate about user experience and writes clearly and concisely. Your primary responsibilities will include:

Helping shape ODK’s roadmap
Specifying, designing, and building new features
Writing maintainable code, tests, and documentation
Reviewing your teammates’ code and providing feedback
Providing occasional technical support to users

Some of the improvements you will help design and build solutions for include:

Better integration between our mobile app and server platform (e.g., synchronization of large data sets, pushing client configs from the server)
Repeated encounters with the same entity (e.g., a patient’s multiple medical visits, a natural resource that is periodically surveyed)
More natural representation and management of organizations’ forms, data, and workflows (e.g., richer role-based permissions, partitioning data sets by department, tasking users to complete a sequence of forms)

Minimum qualifications

Has experience communicating directly with users about their needs
Has 5+ years of professional software development experience
Has experience on projects that span multiple programming languages
Can read carefully, write clearly, and think methodically
Can provide friendly, thoughtful, and constructive advice
Is curious, persistent, and cooperative

Preferred qualifications

Experience with data collection, analysis, or visualization systems
Experience designing and documenting APIs
Experience with Node.js, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, and Docker
Experience leading globally distributed teams
Interest in user experience, user interfaces, visual design
History of contributions to open source projects
History of working on problems with social impact

What we offer

Contribute to an open-source project with immense social impact
Work with a open, distributed, and fun community
Flexible multi-year contract-based arrangement
Flexible hours, remote work, and location independence
Expected annual compensation is USD $120k-180k