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Embedded Firmware Engineer - Cents

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Job Title
Embedded Firmware Engineer
Job Location
United States
Job Description
Want to be a part of a team revolutionizing and leading an entire industry with no real competition? The laundry industry is a $40+ billion dollar market, and the Cents platform is making it easier for laundromats, dry cleaners, and all garment care businesses to grow, manage, and understand their business. Backed by top-tier investors like Bessemer, Camber Creek, and Tiger Global, Cents is one of the fastest-growing vertical SaaS companies in the USA, and we’re just getting started. Already profitable and growing incredibly quickly each year, we have entered the absolute best stage of being a startup.
About Cents
Cents is a New York-based technology company passionate about transforming the laundry industry and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Cents is modernizing garment care businesses by providing an all-in-one, business-in-a-box platform to help operators start, manage, and grow their businesses. By building a market-leading SaaS product for this industry, we aim to revolutionize the industry through our suite of software (Cents Point of Sale) and hardware (Pulse, Penny, and Laundroworks) products.
Our team is full of passionate technology experts obsessed with supporting and empowering SMBs. We feel the unique responsibility and opportunity we have to elevate an industry. We’re adding great talent to help achieve this mission, and that’s where you come in!
About the Role
As a Firmware Engineer at Cents, you will work alongside a dynamic team of engineers, designers, and industry experts to architect, implement, and maintain complex payment and IoT sensor systems to provide insight and convenience to laundromat operators. We have hundreds of thousands of payment devices across thousands of locations in the US and Canada. You will be treated as an expert within your domain and take on significant responsibility of driving product efforts. You are acutely aware of the tools, technologies, and best practices necessary to deliver a high quality solution to an under-modernized industry.
We are open to remote work, but employees must work EST hours.
Responsibilities
  • Ownership of firmware/software architecture decisions, development of software scope, and the execution of project plans
  • Lead software design discussions; ability to describe and analyze software decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Development and execution of test suites to ensure system robustness, compliance, and maintainability
  • Technical mentorship of junior engineers, with direct oversight over some
  • Contribution to product research, development, and roadmapping discussions to outline software solutions for industry-defined problems
  • Qualifications
  • BS or greater in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
  • 5+ years experience in embedded firmware/software architecture, implementation, and maintenance
  • Extensive experience implementing embedded software for consumer hardware devices
  • Notable background programming embedded devices in C/C++, Python, Bash, and Java/Kotlin
  • Experience working in Kernel and user space.Familiarity with Ubuntu Linux distribution or similar
  • Familiarity with electrical engineering fundamentals, including strong aptitude for debugging with electrical test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMM’s, soldering, etc.)
  • Proficient with source control systems (Git/SVN) and defect tracking systems (JIRA)
  • Comfortable working an an Agile development environment
  • Proficient in reading and understanding electrical schematics
  • This role could be a fit for you if you have experience with...
  • Zephyr RTOS and or Android based IoT devices
  • Cryptography: symmetric and asymmetric, encryption/decryption, hashing, signatures, certificates, etc.
  • DevOps strategies and tools for the deployment and maintenance of software systems
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    Cents Headquarters Location

    New York, NY

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    Cents Company Size

    Between 20 - 100 employees

    Cents Founded Year

    2019

    Cents Total Amount Raised

    $74,250,000

    Cents Funding Rounds

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    • Series B

      $40,000,000 USD

    • Series A

      $25,000,000 USD

    • Seed

      $4,999,999 USD

    • Seed

      $4,250,000 USD