Senior Software Engineer, Wallets

Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.

As a part of the Wallet team, you will work on products that power the ecosystem of applications that connect end-users to the Stellar network. Our team builds one of these applications, Freighter, as well as the open-source libraries and services that they depend on. Your work will be at the intersection of scale and usability: designing opinionated backend systems and interfaces that accelerate downstream application development and deploying and scaling those systems as Stellar’s transaction throughput and user base grows.

In this role, you will:

• Work on cutting-edge technology at the intersection of blockchain and finance.

• Drive all aspects of the development process for wallet projects, from vision to implementation.

• Design new functionality and developer-facing APIs that empower the ecosystem.

• Build and maintain scalable web services that align with the foundation’s mission.

• Identify developer needs and design standardized protocols to improve developer velocity across the ecosystem.

• Engage with the open-source community on diverse projects, frameworks, and ideas.

• Collaborate on code reviews, design discussions, and best practices for engineering at SDF.

• Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks to ensure our API services scale effectively.

• Author detailed technical specifications (RFCs) to contribute to our robust design process.

You have:

• 5+ years of experience developing software as part of a collaborative team.

• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.

• Proficiency in writing server applications in languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C#, Java, or C++, and a willingness to work across languages when needed.

• A solid grasp of software design patterns and the ability to build reusable, extensible, and modular components.

• Experience supporting production web services at scale.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to advocate for and lead technical discussions, especially during design and code reviews.

• A strong product mindset that drives a passion for understanding and designing for current and anticipated user needs.

Bonus Points if:

• You have experience with blockchain technology.

• You have experience building data pipelines.

• You have experience contributing to open-source projects.

• You have experience specifically with Go and NodeJS

We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $185,000 - $275,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits:

USA Benefits/Perks:

• Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents

• Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break

• Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents

• Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)

• Life & ADD (up to $50K)

• Short & Long term disability

• 401K with 4% match

• Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts

• Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution

• Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution

• Family building benefits through Kindbody

• Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)

• L&D budget of $1,500/year

• Daily lunch and snacks in office

• Company retreats

About Stellar

Stellar is more than a blockchain. Powered by a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network made for financial products and services and a thriving and passionate ecosystem that includes a non-profit organization driven by a missi