Backend Engineer Integrations and APIs
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network designed to facilitate fast, low-cost cross-border payments and financial transactions globally.
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About Stellar Development Foundation
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network focused on improving global financial access by enabling fast, secure, and low-cost cross-border transactions. It connects financial institutions, payment systems, and individuals to transfer digital and fiat assets. With a mission to promote financial inclusion, Stellar is designed to serve both developed and underserved markets, offering interoperability between traditional and blockchain-based financial systems.
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About the Role
You will own the layer between core infrastructure and external users, including public APIs, indexing, data pipelines, and developer-facing services. You will design JSON-RPC endpoints, build transaction status tracking and query backends, develop analytics and observability pipelines, and harden services for production through integrations and load testing.
Requirements
- Strong systems or backend programming experience in Rust, C++, or both
- Proven experience designing and building robust RPC or API services for high-scale traffic
- Deep understanding of database architecture, indexing, and query patterns
- Experience owning production infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Design and build JSON-RPC endpoints for transaction submission, status queries, and account state
- Own transaction lifecycle status tracking, error reporting, and timeout handling
- Build the indexer and query backend for the block explorer, partner integrations, and historical state queries
- Build analytics pipelines and implement metrics and event logging
- Work across service boundaries to understand component behavior
- Harden APIs, build partner integrations, and perform load testing
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision coverage with most plans fully covered for employees and dependents
- Flexible time off and 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
- Paid parental leave and paid pregnancy disability leave
- Gym reimbursement of $80 per month
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance up to $50,000
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- 401K with 4% match
- Health and Dependent Care FSA accounts
- Commuter benefits with a $250 monthly employer contribution
- Health Savings Account with monthly employer contribution
- Family-building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits through One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace
- Daily lunch and snacks in the office
- Company retreats
