Stellar Development Foundation

Senior Software Engineer, Wallets

Stellar Development Foundation

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $260,000 per year

Job Level

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