Firmware Engineer

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Stripe Terminal helps Stripe users extend their online presence into the physical world. The Terminal team’s mission is to make it as easy for businesses to accept in-person payments as the Stripe API has done for online payments. With Terminal, businesses can unlock in-person payments use cases that are right for their business model—whether it’s creating a flagship retail experience, extending their website to a pop-up store, or enabling a mobile point-of-sale at their next event.

We are looking for:

You will be responsible for all aspects of software development, which includes building, writing automated tests, and deploying software on our embedded payments platforms. This team works closely with partner teams throughout the hardware and software product lifecycle, from hardware manufacturing to Android application teams.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop and maintain user interfaces and underlying functionality for embedded point-of-sale software that handle secure payment processing across several products simultaneously.
• Implement industry standard protocols to match product capabilities.
• Create, maintain, and execute application unit tests as part of Continuous Integration.
• Analyze bug reports and manage the defect resolution process (disposition issues, resolve issues, and report issue status).
• Work closely with QA staff to ensure appropriate test cases are created, maintained, and executed.
• Collaborate on system-side code, communication protocol design, and kernel development.
• Interact with global teams with excellent communication skills to provide support information.
• Routinely perform code reviews to ensure high quality designs and implementation.
• Assist in ensuring quality and timeliness of product and feature development.
• Proactively solve problems and work independently and within a team environment, with limited guidance.
• Work closely with your hardware counterparts on product design and have the ability to read schematics, provide feedback on I/O mapping, developing manufacturing test software to ensure the devices are built to specification.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be con