Cents6mo ago

USD 120–160/yr

Embedded Firmware Engineer

United StatesRemoteFull timemid

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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.

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

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

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

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

United States

Remote within one country

Who can apply

North America

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United States

Listing Details

Posted: November 14, 2025
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: May 14, 2026

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Cents is a business management platform offering software and hardware solutions for laundromats and dry cleaners to help them grow, manage, and understand their business.

Employees

125

Founded

2019

Domain

trycents.com

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USD 120–160

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