Android Engineer, Terminal Developer Productivity

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, aiming to increase the GDP of the internet. The Android Engineer role involves designing and maintaining tools that enhance developer productivity for the Terminal team, focusing on in-person payment solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain tools, libraries and infrastructure that improve the productivity of Terminal engineers across mobile, backend and embedded systems
• Collaborate closely with mobile engineers to understand their workflows and pain points and translate them into practical short-term and long-term solutions
• Contribute to and improve our build, CI/CD and test automation systems for Terminal SDKs, Android apps and firmware
• Work with stakeholders across Terminal to prioritize work, balance competing needs and ensure your solutions integrate cleanly into existing workflows
• Own projects end-to-end, from problem discovery and design through implementation, rollout and ongoing operation
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions and documentation to maintain a high bar for code quality, reliability and developer experience
• Mentor other engineers in areas such as build, test and release best practices, helping to spread strong developer productivity practices across the team

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience with backend systems and at least one of: Android/mobile or embedded/firmware development
• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining production systems or developer tooling
• Understanding of how to build scalable, reliable and observable services, pipelines, or tooling
• Experience owning projects from design through implementation, rollout and ongoing support
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving multiple stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to different audiences
• Based in the PST time zone
• Proficiency in one or more of: Kotlin, Java, or Go
• Experience building tools or platforms to improve developer productivity, with clear empathy for internal developer users
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and modern build systems
• Experience designing and maintaining automated testing infrastructure (e.g. integration/end-to-end tests, test orchestration, or reducing test flakiness)
• Experience with Android build and test tooling (e.g. Gradle, emulators, device farms) or firmware build pipelines
• Experience in payments, point-of-sale, or hardware-integrated systems is a plus