Product Engineer

Organizational Profile

Strong Family is a framework that strengthens families on the brink of crisis by restoring dignity to struggling caregivers and empowering them with the skills they need to bring stability to their families. Our platform courses train local church leaders to utilize our expanded Child Status Index assessment and Community-Asset Development methodologies to evaluate their communities and track family success through our app. Through Strong Family, community leaders are equipped to build local solutions for local challenges.

For over a decade, we’ve seen families in East Africa stabilized and children thriving because of a simple organic process by local churches empowering families in their communities. Over 200 churches have successfully implemented this program. Now, we are expanding this impactful program globally, aiming to bring the same level of support and transformation to families in need around the world—that’s where you come in.

Our Ideal Candidate

We’re looking for a Senior Flutter engineer who can take features from idea to deployment, ensuring a reliable experience on iOS and Android. You’re expert in Flutter who has designed offline-first sync between cloud and local data. You have experience shipping complex cross-platform apps and setting patterns for others to follow. You care about quality: you write tests, add monitoring, and fix issues before users notice. You’re entrepreneurial, thrive in ambiguity, and communicate clearly with Design and QA to make smart trade-offs and ship quickly. You’re curious, continuously learning, and motivated to tackle new challenges even if that means growing your skillset beyond what you currently have.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Develop user-facing experiences on cross-platform iOS/Android apps
• Lead Flutter architecture and delivery; set patterns for state management, navigation, testing, and modularization
• Design and operate offline-first sync between cloud and local databases; conflict detection/resolution, idempotent APIs, retries/queues
• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that are reliable, observable, and secure (e.g., REST/JSON; data modeling; migrations; performance tuning).
• Write unit/integration/contract tests and prevent regressions with guardrails and telemetry.
• Proactively introduce tools/patterns/technologies that improve delivery speed and maintainability.
• Stack: Frontend - Flutter, SQLite. Backend - Laravel, MySQL
• Focus expectation: You’ll spend a meaningful share of your time leading Flutter work in the first 3–6 months, while also contributing across services/web as priorities require.

Knowledge and Skills, You Bring to the Organization

• Expert in Flutter with shipped, complex apps; deep grasp of state management (e.g., Riverpod/Bloc), navigation, testing, performance, accessibility.
• Mobile fundamentals (iOS/Android packaging, store workflows, automated deployment).
• Proficiency in one modern server-side stack (e.g., PHP/Laravel, Node.js/TypeScript, Python/FastAPI, Go, Java/Spring)
• Proven delivery: end-to-end ownership across various domains (mobile frontend, backend API, etc.)
• Data modeling, API design, SQL performance (e.g., MySQL: indexes, query tuning)
• Experience with experimentation/feature flags, product analytics (e.g., Amplitude, Firebase)

This role will serve both multiple divisions including Strong Family and CarePortal applications. This role will report to the Senior Director of Engineering. CarePortal and Strong Family are subsidiaries of the parent nonprofit organization The Global Orphan Project (GO Project). CarePortal is Care-Sharing technology that drives action for local kids and families in crisis. In a time when parents are experiencing overwhelming stress that threatens to break their family apart, CarePortal utilizes innovative technology to connect people who can help with people who need help. Right now, in real-time.

The Global Orphan Project, Inc. is a Christian non-profit ministry with a mission to break the orphan cycle through the power of community, commerce, and the love of Jesus Christ. We carry out our mission by equipping and empowering local churches to care for children and families in crisis. We seek candidates who understand and are enthusiastic about advancing our organizational mission.