Senior Backend Engineer
About The Position
Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. You’ll join a team of talented engineers designing APIs, backend services, and tools that serve a diverse range of users—from individual developers to institutions. Whether you're passionate about infrastructure, scaling systems, or shaping the developer and end-user experience, you'll be working on high-impact projects at the intersection of blockchain and finance.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software design patterns.
- Proficiency in backend development with languages such as Go, Python, Rust, Java, C++, or similar.
- Experience deploying and operating production web services at scale.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions.
- A product-driven mindset with an interest in improving the developer or user experience.
Nice To Haves
- Have experience working on blockchain or financial technology.
- Are passionate about open-source software and have contributed to open-source projects.
- Have worked on products where developers or builders are the primary users.
- Have experience with Go.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end development of backend services and APIs that support the Stellar ecosystem.
- Build, maintain, and scale reliable infrastructure and web services in support of mission-critical applications.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to understand developer or end-user needs and translate them into pragmatic solutions.
- Optimize backend systems for performance, scale, and maintainability.
- Contribute to our open-source efforts, including SDKs, libraries, and tools.
- Engage in architectural design discussions, write detailed technical specifications (RFCs), and contribute to SDF’s engineering best practices.
- Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing across teams.
Benefits
- competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $185,000 - $275,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
- lumen-denominated grants
- perks and benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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