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Job description
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.
Responsibilities
- Design and build key components of Stellar Core - the backbone software behind the Stellar Network.
- Design and develop robust, scalable, and extensible technologies that empower our developers and network participants.
- Collaborate on new architectures and subsystems, working alongside our CTO, our team of engineers, and our community of open source developers.
- Write clean, maintainable code with an emphasis on edge case analysis and future-proofing our work.
- Own core subsystems of Stellar Core, and help the team hit critical product milestones.
- Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
- Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks in order to continue scaling the system.
- Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience developing software on a team.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
- Proficient in writing code in modern C++ or Rust in a production environment.
- Strong communication skills to advocate and lead technical discussions.
- Solid understanding of software design patterns.
- Knowledgeable of best practices and development tools.
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking.
- Enthusiastic about working on a small, growing team.
Conditions
- Competitive pay with a base salary range of $180,000 - $290,000.
- Lumen-denominated grants.
- Competitive health, dental & vision coverage.
- Flexible time off + 15 company holidays.
- Generous paid parental leave.
- 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.
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.