Embedded Engineer, Android OS
- Toronto, Canada
- Full-time
- Position open to remote: Yes
Company Description
Job Description
Square’s Hardware Team builds the tangible connection to Square. We started with a simple and elegant Reader that turns any phone or tablet into a mobile point of sale - and we continue to lead this category with advances in chip card and NFC technology. Next, we introduced the Square Stand, the best way to turn your iPad into a countertop point of sale. We’ve expanded our HW portfolio with two new Android-based solutions: Square Register, the first fully integrated point of sale that enables people to start selling right out of the box, and Square Terminal, a portable point of sale that enables sellers to do business anywhere. As we introduce more products, we will meet the needs of more and more sellers with stand-out hardware products, globally.
In this role, you will be developing the platform that powers Square’s hardware products. As part of the team, you’ll lead projects that involve collaboration with teams across Square and will help Square’s Hardware team realize its opportunity for growth.
Role Location:
We want employees to be able to reside where they feel most creative and productive. You will be part of an org that works across Pacific, Central, and Eastern time zones.
In this role, you and your direct team will be based in the Pacific and Eastern time zones. This role is open to all people who can be effective partners with this team, including sharing typical working hours.
You will:
- Be a mentor to engineers and partners to improve engineering quality and increase team effectiveness
- Lead cross team development projects
- Develop an Android software platform for unique mobile products
- Design great code within the constraints and opportunities of powerful embedded platforms
- Improve Android system at the frameworks layer, by designing creative customized features and developing essential modules
- Participate in all development phases from requirements phase to production
- Collaborate on system-side code, communication protocol design, and kernel development on Linux/Android platforms
- Participate in Agile practices (for example; sprint planning, backlog grooming, and review)
Qualifications
You have:
- 5+ years of development experience
- Programming experience in Java or C software development, tools and debug with software development discipline
- Experience in at least one other development language (Java or C, C++, Python)
- A passion for writing and shipping production software
- Experience leading development of large systems
- History of mentoring engineering teams member to raise technical standards and achieve our goals
- BS in CS, CE, EE, or equivalent practical experience
Even better:
- Experience porting Android to a new device
- Understanding of the Android framework internals and AOSP code
- Experience developing Linux Kernel extensions and device drivers
- Experience shipping consumer electronics products
Check out Android@Square and our Github
Additional Information
Perks
At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources