Cloak is a VPN network, and a set of apps (currently for iOS and OS X) designed to connect to this service.
We are looking for a senior Android contractor to help us get our native Android app off the ground, and to get us in great position to grow our Android presence for many years to come.
Right now there are just two of us developing the service. We differentiate Cloak by (1) providing a beautiful minimal UI and features like auto-secure that allow the VPN to fade into the background, (2) actually caring about the secure construction of our apps, our APIs, and our VPN network, and (3) going the extra mile, and then another, for our customers.
Our ideal candidate has:
1. Deep experience architecting complex new Android applications, and an innate understanding of the pieces that need to be put together to provide an experience that matches our current iOS and OS X apps.
2. A keen sense of how they might build and interact with OpenVPN under the app's hood, how they can implement auto-secure reliably, how they can gracefully handle captive portal networks, etc.
3. A curiosity about VPN networking, and an attention to detail to ensure that every security-critical decision the app needs to make -- from credential storage to networking configuration -- is made well.
4. Experience with modern Android development tools and practices: for example, our ideal candidate is running Studio 2.1 right now (and might be playing with 2.2 canaries), is perhaps wary of using Fragments, already planned to start this app with appcompat, has played with or even used dagger2, retrofit and rxjava, butterknife, etc.
5. Ideally, a love of graceful UI designs, and a willingness to make pixel-detail changes or tweak animation curves when it just doesn't feel right.
This is a meaty project and we think it will be a fun challenge for the right candidate. We expect it will take real time to put together; our guesstimate is 4 full-time months, +/-1.5, but we'll work with you to refine this.
We also expect we'll be working with you along the way to guide development and fill in blanks should it become necessary.
Interested? Please get in touch with me! dave[at]getcloak[dot]com
Multi year paid subscriber of Cloak. I've used this product on my macbook for years and it is hands down my favorite app on my laptop. I didn't realize how great it was until I tried to set my non-technical sister up with a VPN on her Windows laptop.
Cloak is not like that. Not anything like that. It is beautiful, simple, no config necessary, and has great features.
My biggest regret about choosing Android is that i couldn't use Cloak on my phone. Thrilled that Dave is looking to fix that, and I'm excited for you to come on and help the Android community enjoy the glory of Cloak.
I'm also a big fan of Cloak, multi-year customer & using Cloak right now while I post this from a cafe. Dave & the Cloak team have been awesome to deal with as a customer, and Dave went way beyond in offering customer support on a very unusual corner case setup. A company I was consulting with even referenced the Cloak team internally as a model for the kind of vendors they wanted to buy from in future.
I wish my Android skills were better, because this is a dream job. But I'm looking forward to the Android version & using it across all the Android devices I have next to my Mac.
Cloak is a VPN network, and a set of apps (currently for iOS and OS X) designed to connect to this service.
We are looking for a senior Android contractor to help us get our native Android app off the ground, and to get us in great position to grow our Android presence for many years to come.
Right now there are just two of us developing the service. We differentiate Cloak by (1) providing a beautiful minimal UI and features like auto-secure that allow the VPN to fade into the background, (2) actually caring about the secure construction of our apps, our APIs, and our VPN network, and (3) going the extra mile, and then another, for our customers.
Our ideal candidate has:
1. Deep experience architecting complex new Android applications, and an innate understanding of the pieces that need to be put together to provide an experience that matches our current iOS and OS X apps.
2. A keen sense of how they might build and interact with OpenVPN under the app's hood, how they can implement auto-secure reliably, how they can gracefully handle captive portal networks, etc.
3. A curiosity about VPN networking, and an attention to detail to ensure that every security-critical decision the app needs to make -- from credential storage to networking configuration -- is made well.
4. Experience with modern Android development tools and practices: for example, our ideal candidate is running Studio 2.1 right now (and might be playing with 2.2 canaries), is perhaps wary of using Fragments, already planned to start this app with appcompat, has played with or even used dagger2, retrofit and rxjava, butterknife, etc.
5. Ideally, a love of graceful UI designs, and a willingness to make pixel-detail changes or tweak animation curves when it just doesn't feel right.
This is a meaty project and we think it will be a fun challenge for the right candidate. We expect it will take real time to put together; our guesstimate is 4 full-time months, +/-1.5, but we'll work with you to refine this.
We also expect we'll be working with you along the way to guide development and fill in blanks should it become necessary.
Interested? Please get in touch with me! dave[at]getcloak[dot]com