
Senior Software Engineer, Wallets
Stellar Development Foundation
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $170,000 - $260,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- 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.
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.
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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Hard Skills & Tools
GoPythonRustC#JavaC++data structuresalgorithmsdistributed systemssoftware design patterns
Soft Skills
excellent communication skillsadvocacy for technical discussionsleadership in design reviewscollaborationproblem-solvingproduct mindsetunderstanding user needs