Android Engineer, Dev Productivity

<h2>Who we are</h2> <h3>About Stripe</h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <h3>About the team</h3> <p>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.</p> <h2>What you’ll do</h2> <p>You'll own the developer productivity platform for Stripe's Terminal team, designing and building the tooling and infrastructure that makes engineers across mobile, backend, and embedded systems faster and more effective.</p> <h3>Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li>Design, build and maintain tools, libraries and infrastructure that improve the productivity of engineers across mobile, backend and embedded systems.</li> <li>Collaborate closely with mobile engineers to understand their workflows and pain points and translate them into practical short-term and long-term solutions.</li> <li>Contribute to and improve our build, CI/CD and test automation systems for SDKs, Android apps and firmware.</li> <li>Work with key stakeholders to prioritize work, balance competing needs and ensure your solutions integrate cleanly into existing workflows.</li> <li>Own projects end-to-end, from problem discovery and design through implementation, rollout and ongoing operation.</li> <li>Participate in code reviews, design discussions and documentation to maintain a high bar for code quality, reliability and developer experience.</li> <li>Mentor other engineers in areas such as build, test and release best practices, helping to spread strong developer productivity practices across the team.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.</span></p> <h3>Minimum requirements</h3> <ul> <li>BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li> <li>6+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience with backend systems and at least one of: Android/mobile or embedded/firmware development.</li> <li>Experience designing, implementing and maintaining production systems or developer tooling.</li> <li>Understanding of how to build scalable, reliable and observable services, pipelines, or tooling.</li> <li>Experience owning projects from design through implementation, rollout and ongoing support.</li> <li>Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving multiple stakeholders and subject matter experts.</li> <li>Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to different audiences.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Proficiency in one or more of: Kotlin, Java, or Go.</li> <li>Experience building tools or platforms to improve developer productivity, with clear empathy for internal developer users.</li> <li>Experience with CI/CD tooling and pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and modern build systems.</li> <li>Experience designing and maintaining automated testing infrastructure (e.g. integration/end-to-end tests, test orchestration, or reducing test flakiness).</li> <li>Experience with Android build and test tooling (e.g. Gradle, emulators, device farms) or firmware build pipelines.</li> <li>Experience in payments, point-of-sale, or hardware-integrated systems is a plus.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>