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 new architectures and subsystems with the CTO, engineering team, and open-source developers
- 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 specifications
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 reusable, extensible, and modular software design patterns
- Ability to communicate effectively and lead technical design and code review discussions
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
- Knowledge of development best practices and 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
- Gym reimbursement
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) with 4% employer match
- Health and dependent care FSA accounts
- Commuter benefits and employer contribution
- Health Savings Account with 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.