Senior Software Engineer, Platform
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
Build platform infrastructure, libraries, services, and APIs used to interact with the Stellar blockchain. Design platform functionality, implement scalable services, investigate performance bottlenecks, author RFCs, collaborate on engineering decisions, engage with open source, and support production systems.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software development experience on collaborative teams
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval
- Proficiency writing server applications in Go, Python, Rust, C#, Java, or C++
- Experience supporting production web services at scale
- Ability to write reusable, extensible, and modular components using design patterns
- Experience with performance optimization, debugging, and benchmarking
- Excellent communication skills for technical discussions and reviews
- Familiarity with existing frameworks and open-source tooling
- Autonomous working style and collaborative mindset
Responsibilities
- Design developer-facing APIs
- Build and maintain scalable web services
- Implement platform functionality and architecture
- Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks
- Author detailed technical specifications (RFCs)
- Collaborate on code reviews and design discussions
- Engage with the open-source community
- Support production web services at scale
- Drive projects from vision to implementation
Benefits
- Lumen-denominated grants
- Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible time off and 15 company holidays
- Paid parental and pregnancy leave
- Gym reimbursement of $80 per month
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- 401K with 4% employer match
- Health and dependent care FSA accounts
- Commuter benefits with $250 per month employer contribution
- Health Savings Account contributions
- Family building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits
- Learning and development budget of $1,500 per year
- Daily lunch and snacks in office
- Company retreats
