Senior Software Engineer, Wallets
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. As a part of the Wallet team, you will work on products that power the ecosystem of applications that connect end-users to the Stellar network. Our team builds one of these applications, Freighter, as well as the open-source libraries and services that they depend on. Your work will be at the intersection of scale and usability: designing opinionated backend systems and interfaces that accelerate downstream application development and deploying and scaling those systems as Stellar’s transaction throughput and user base grows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing software as part of a collaborative team.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
- Proficiency in writing server applications in languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C#, Java, or C++, and a willingness to work across languages when needed.
- A solid grasp of software design patterns and the ability to build reusable, extensible, and modular components.
- Experience supporting production web services at scale.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to advocate for and lead technical discussions, especially during design and code reviews.
- A strong product mindset that drives a passion for understanding and designing for current and anticipated user needs.
Nice To Haves
- You have experience with blockchain technology.
- You have experience building data pipelines.
- You have experience contributing to open-source projects.
- You have experience specifically with Go and NodeJS
Responsibilities
- Work on cutting-edge technology at the intersection of blockchain and finance.
- Drive all aspects of the development process for wallet projects, from vision to implementation.
- Design new functionality and developer-facing APIs that empower the ecosystem.
- Build and maintain scalable web services that align with the foundation’s mission.
- Identify developer needs and design standardized protocols to improve developer velocity across the ecosystem.
- Engage with the open-source community on diverse projects, frameworks, and ideas.
- Collaborate on code reviews, design discussions, and best practices for engineering at SDF.
- Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks to ensure our API services scale effectively.
- Author detailed technical specifications (RFCs) to contribute to our robust design process.
Benefits
- Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents
- Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both non-birthing and birthing parents, as well as up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy leave for birthing parents
- Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
- Life & ADD (up to $50K)
- Short & Long term disability
- 401K with 4% match
- Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
- Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution
- Family building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
- L&D budget of $1,500/year
- Daily lunch and snacks in office
- Company retreats
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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