Job Description

Square’s Hardware Team builds the tangible connection to Square. We recently expanded our HW portfolio with two 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.

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.

You will:

• Lead a small team of embedded software engineers working on projects spanning field quality improvements and new product development
• Mentor engineers and help cultivate their career aspirations
• Participate in all development phases from requirements gathering to production
• Collaborate with teammates during the software design process and participate in code reviews
• Work with multiple partners across the organization including product, program management, EE, manufacturing test engineering, as well as other engineering teams

Qualifications

You have:

• Programming experience in one or more of C, C++, Java, and Python
• Firmware/embedded software leadership experience
• An interest in growing as a people manager
• An interest in building and shipping hardware products

Even better:

• Experience with real-time operating systems or kernel driver development
• Experience debugging issues cross functionally, using a combination of software and lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers
• Understanding of common communications protocols (e.g. SPI, UART, I2C, USB)
• Experience shipping consumer electronics products