Stellar Development Foundation is hiring a

Web3 Staff Software Engineer, Tech Strategy

Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? 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.

The SDF is working on projects that push the envelope on blockchain technology, from cross-chain interoperability to decentralized finance and we are looking for an experienced and hands-on engineer with a unique mix of technical blockchain expertise and strong product experience to join our tech strategy team. In this role, you will work cross functionally with stakeholders from the Stellar ecosystem and the broader blockchain community to design and implement novel protocols for bridging assets between networks and you will also contribute to decentralized finance applications. Your contributions will also have a direct impact on underserved populations by allowing them to take part in exciting new financial systems.

In this role, you will:

• Build integrations and bridges between Stellar and other blockchains.
• Design new protocols for Stellar to make it composable with other blockchains.
• Make Stellar interoperate with all financial and blockchain systems to support the foundation’s mission of creating equitable access to the global financial system.
• Be involved with all aspects of the software development process - from vision to final implementation.
  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.
• Design new platform functionality with the corresponding APIs for external developers.
• Build and maintain web services to support the foundation’s mission of creating equitable access to the global financial system.
• 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:

• 4+ years of experience developing software on a team.
• Written blockchain applications in Go, Rust, or C++, and are a language polyglot.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• A curiosity that drives learning and understanding.
• 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.
• Openness, empathy, and care about putting the best ideas forward in a collaborative and helpful manner.
• Hands-on experience building novel cryptocurrency systems. These include, but are not limited to, decentralized finance (Uniswap, 0x, MakerDAO), confidentiality (grin, zcash, zkvm) and L2 solutions (payment channels, lightning).
• Experience in supporting production web services at scale.

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