Software Engineer

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.

In this role, you will: 

• Be involved with all aspects of the development process for platform projects - from ideation to final implementation.
• Design new platform functionality with the corresponding APIs for external developers.
• Build and maintain web services to support the foundation’s mission (increasing network participation, enabling lumen distribution, and highlighting the stability of the network).
• Identify patterns in developer needs and design new protocols and services to increase developer velocity across our entire ecosystem.
• Engage with our community of open source developers on projects that encompass many different frameworks, languages, and ideas.
• Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
• Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks in order to continue scaling our API services.
• Provide assistance and guidance for our integration projects with our partners and other organizations on the Stellar network.
• Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications - we take design seriously, and we encourage everyone to be a part of our RFC processes.

You have: 

• 3+ years of experience developing software on a team.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• Written server applications in languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C#, Java or C++ and are a language polyglot.
• Experience in supporting production web services at scale.
• Great communication skills and can advocate and lead technical discussions, especially during the design and code review process.
• A solid understanding of software design patterns, and how to build components that are reusable, extensible, and modular.
• Knowledge of existing frameworks and open source tools and are willing to build new frameworks when open ones do not exist.
• A passion for performance debugging and benchmarking.
• Enthusiasm about working on a small, growing team where you'll be given a lot of autonomy.

Bonus Points if (optional):

• You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
• You have a strong curiosity in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, and understand the fundamentals of these systems. 

We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $145,000 - $165,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits: