Senior Software Engineer, Core
Stellar Development Foundationover 1 year ago
Base Salary
$180k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build key components of Stellar Core, the backbone software behind the Stellar Network.
- Develop robust, scalable, and extensible technologies for developers and network participants.
- Design new architectures and subsystems with the CTO, engineering team, and open-source community.
- Write clean, maintainable code with careful edge-case analysis and future-proofing.
- Own core Stellar Core subsystems and help deliver critical product milestones.
- Participate in code reviews and design discussions and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks to scale the system.
- Author detailed technical feature and protocol RFC specifications.
- Work on peer-to-peer networking, processing performance, decentralization, node-failure resilience, incentive mechanics, formal consensus models, verification, simulation, and distributed and multicore scalability.
Requirements
- At least 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.
- Strong understanding of software design patterns and reusable, extensible, modular components.
- Experience with performance debugging and benchmarking.
- Ability to communicate effectively and lead technical discussions during design and code review.
- Knowledge of development best practices and development tools.
- Bonus: direct experience designing and implementing distributed systems.
- Bonus: curiosity about blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies and understanding of their fundamentals.
Benefits
- Competitive 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 for all parents and paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents.
- Gym reimbursement of $80 per month.
- 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 monthly employer contribution.
- Health Savings Account with a monthly employer contribution.
- Family-building benefits through Kindbody.
- Wellbeing benefits through One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace.
- Learning and development budget of $1,500 per year.
- Daily lunch and snacks in the office.
- Company retreats.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
About Stellar Development Foundation
Our mission is open source financial access for all. The Stellar Development Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco. We’re building a common financial platform, designed to be open and accessible to everyone. Just as the internet allowed anyone to send an email or create a blog, Stellar now allows people to easily send, save, and receive money, without large fees or hassle.