Senior Software Engineer, C++
Stellar Development Foundationover 1 year ago
Base Salary
$180k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build key components of Stellar Core
- Develop robust, scalable, and extensible technologies for developers and network participants
- Collaborate on architectures and subsystems with engineering leadership, engineers, and open-source contributors
- Write clean, maintainable code with attention to edge cases and future-proofing
- Own core Stellar Core subsystems and help deliver critical product milestones
- Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions
- Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks to scale 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 an equivalent field
- Production experience writing modern C++ or Rust
- Understanding of software design patterns and reusable, extensible, modular component design
- Experience with development best practices and tools
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
- Strong communication skills for technical discussions, design, and code review
- Bonus: direct experience designing and implementing distributed systems
- Bonus: curiosity about blockchain and cryptocurrencies and understanding of their fundamentals
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for employees and dependents
- Flexible time off and 15 company holidays, including a company-wide holiday break
- Paid parental leave and paid pregnancy disability leave
- $80-per-month gym reimbursement
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance up to $50,000
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) with a 4% employer match
- Health and dependent care FSA accounts
- Commuter benefits with a $250-per-month employer contribution
- Health Savings Account with a monthly employer contribution
- Family-building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits including One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace
- $1,500 annual learning and development budget
- Daily lunch and snacks in the office
- Company retreats
- Hybrid work arrangement
About Stellar Development Foundation
The Stellar Development Foundation is a nonprofit that develops and stewards the open-source Stellar blockchain, used to issue assets and move money across borders at low cost. It maintains core software, fosters ecosystem growth through tooling, funding, and partner integrations, and works with financial institutions and developers building on the network. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on real-time payments and financial access use cases.