The vacancy is well-structured with clear responsibilities and compensation, though company details could be improved.
Job description
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. You’ll join a team of talented engineers designing APIs, backend services, and tools that serve a diverse range of users—from individual developers to institutions. Whether you're passionate about infrastructure, scaling systems, or shaping the developer and end-user experience, you'll be working on high-impact projects at the intersection of blockchain and finance.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end development of backend services and APIs that support the Stellar ecosystem.
- Build, maintain, and scale reliable infrastructure and web services in support of mission-critical applications.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to understand developer or end-user needs and translate them into pragmatic solutions.
- Optimize backend systems for performance, scale, and maintainability.
- Contribute to our open-source efforts, including SDKs, libraries, and tools.
- Engage in architectural design discussions, write detailed technical specifications (RFCs), and contribute to SDF’s engineering best practices.
- Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing across teams.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, software design patterns.
- Proficiency in backend development, Go, Python, Rust, Java, C++.
- Experience deploying and operating production web services at scale.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead technical discussions.
- Product-driven mindset, interest in improving developer or user experience.
- Experience working on blockchain or financial technology.
- Passionate about open-source software, contributed to open-source projects.
- Worked on products where developers or builders are the primary users.
- Experience with Go.
About Stellar Development Foundation
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a nonprofit organization that supports the development and growth of the Stellar network, a public blockchain for borderless payments, asset tokenization, and DeFi solutions. It provides grants, funding, resources, and tooling to builders and organizations while maintaining the network's codebase to create equitable access to the global financial system.