Stellar Jobs in North America

In this role, you will:

• Be involved with all aspects of the development process for platform projects - 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 of 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 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:

• 5+ 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, Rust, Python, JavaScript, Java or C++ and are language polyglot.
• Experience in supporting production web services at scale.
• Great communication that can advocate and lead technical discussions, especially during the design and code review process.
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, and how to build components that are reusable, extensible, and modular.
• Knowledgeable 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.
• Open, empathetic, and care about putting the best ideas forward in a collaborative and helpful manner.