ditto - Engineering Manager, Public Sector Applications
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Requirements
• Clearance Eligible Requirement: Must be eligible to obtain a Secret clearance (Due to federal security clearance requirements, U.S. Citizenship is strictly required for this role). • 2+ years of engineering management experience leading engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and shipping product through a team. Comfort guiding engineers working on Android, Kotlin/Java, and the practical challenges of mobile hardware. • Prior experience leading or building ATAK plugins, or deep familiarity with the TAK ecosystem, including CoT messaging, TAK Server integration, and the plugin architecture. • Strong integration design skills, including the ability to define clean API contracts, design data synchronization patterns, and architect loosely coupled systems that interoperate reliably across organizational and technical boundaries. • A highly adaptable, problem-solving mindset, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, move fast, and balance team health, immediate delivery, and long-term technical fidelity. • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. As the leader of the team operating closest to the field, you must be able to translate complex, edge-case technical realities and user workflows into clear priorities for your team, peer engineering leaders, and product partners. • Experience leading teams shipping software built on CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) or local-first software architectures to manage complex data synchronization without a central server. • Experience overseeing cross-platform mobile development efforts or strategies for maintaining parity between Android and other platform targets. • Familiarity with tactical networking concepts, including how mobile devices operate over constrained, mesh, or MANET radio networks. • Experience overseeing work involving SQLite, Realm, or other embedded databases and offline-first data persistence strategies for mobile applications. • Direct experience leading or supporting teams operating at the tactical edge, including deploying and supporting software on end-user devices in field exercises or operational environments. • Previous experience working directly with SOCOM, DoD, or federal customers, with an understanding of navigating secure or classified network environments. • A background in backend or systems development (e.g., Go, Rust, Python) in addition to Android, enabling you to credibly guide your team on integration middleware or data translation work.
Responsibilities
• Lead a Team Delivering ATAK Plugins: Guide your team through the design, development, and field deployment of custom ATAK (Android Team Awareness Kit) plugins that integrate our platform's data synchronization capabilities directly into the warfighter's primary situational awareness tool. • Own Android-Native Integration Delivery: Set the technical direction for performant Android applications and services that run on tactical end-user devices, ensuring reliable operation in disconnected, intermittent, and low-bandwidth (DIL) environments. • Drive Integration Architecture: Own the end-to-end integration design between our platform and the broader TAK ecosystem, partnering with engineers and stakeholders to define data contracts, API boundaries, and synchronization patterns that enable seamless interoperability with third-party systems and services. • Develop the Team and Resolve Issues in Real-Time: Coach and grow engineers while acting as an escalation point for rapidly diagnosing and resolving application, integration, and data-flow issues as they arise on end-user devices in live operational environments.
Benefits
• Pay Transparency at Ditto • Ditto uses a location-based compensation model. This means pay ranges for the same role may vary depending on where you live, based on cost of living and market data.The ranges you see on our job postings represent the full span of target compensation across all markets where we hire. Within that range, actual offers are determined by a candidate’s skills and experience. This ensures we remain competitive with local markets while also maintaining internal consistency and fairness in real spending power across locations. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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