Stellar Development Foundation is hiring a
Web3 Backend Engineer

Compensation: $18k - $66k estimated

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Interested in helping us change the world of payments forever? The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is looking for a talented, experienced, and hands-on platform engineer to join our team. In this role, you’ll be designing, building, and implementing the tools and services that empower Stellar's ecosystem. By working within the platform team, you'll be working on open source projects that empower developers to use the Stellar network for a wide variety of goals and use cases.

In this role, you will:

  • Be involved with all aspects of the software development process - from vision to final implementation.
  • Design new platform functionality with the corresponding APIs for external developers.
  • Build and maintain web services to support the foundation’s mission (creating equitable access to the global financial system).
  • Identify patterns in developer needs and design new protocols and services to increase developer velocity across our entire ecosystem.
  • Engage with our community of open source developers and partners on projects that encompass many different frameworks, languages, and ideas.
  • 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 our API services.
  • Provide assistance and guidance for our integration projects with our partners and other organizations on the Stellar network.
  • Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications - we take design seriously, and we encourage everyone to be a part of our RFC processes.

You have:

  • 2+ years of experience developing software on a team.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
  • Written server applications in languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C#, Java or C++ and are a language polyglot.
  • Experience in supporting production web services at scale.
  • Great communication skills and can advocate and lead technical discussions, especially during the design and code review process.
  • A solid understanding of software design patterns, and how to build components that are reusable, extensible, and modular.
  • Knowledge of existing frameworks and open source tools and are willing to build new frameworks when open ones do not exist.
  • A passion for performance debugging and benchmarking.
  • Enthusiasm about working on a small, growing team where you'll be given a lot of autonomy.
  • The openness, are empathetic, and care about putting the best ideas forward in a collaborative and helpful manner.

Bonus Points if:

  • You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
  • You generally enjoy working on a wide variety of smaller projects as opposed to regularly creating features in a single large system.
  • You have a strong curiosity in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, and understand the fundamentals of these systems.

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Compensation: $18k - $66k estimated

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

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