Backend Engineer, Integrations & APIs
Stellar Development Foundation5 months ago
Base Salary
$140k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build JSON-RPC endpoints for transaction submission, status queries, and account-state access.
- Own the transaction lifecycle from client submission through consensus and back, including status tracking, error reporting, and timeout handling.
- Build the indexer and query backend for the block explorer, partner integrations, and historical state queries.
- Develop analytics pipelines and robust metrics and event logging.
- Work across service boundaries and read code in adjacent components to understand system behavior.
- Take the greenfield distributed-systems infrastructure from early build through production readiness, including API hardening and load testing.
Requirements
- Strong systems or backend programming experience in Rust, C++, or both.
- Proven experience designing and building robust RPC/API services handling real-world, high-scale traffic.
- Deep understanding of database architecture, indexing, and query patterns.
- Demonstrated ownership of production infrastructure rather than only prototypes.
- Prior experience building or operating blockchain infrastructure such as nodes, RPC layers, or indexers is preferred.
- Experience with a testnet or mainnet launch is preferred.
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.
- $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 through One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace.
- $1,500 annual learning and development budget.
- Daily lunch and snacks in the office.
- Company retreats.
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.