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Join Stellar Development Foundation as a Senior Backend Engineer to drive backend services and APIs for the Stellar ecosystem, focusing on high-impact projects at the intersection of blockchain and finance.
About the Role
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.
You'll join a team of talented engineers designing APIs, backend services, and tools that serve a diverse range of users—from individual developers to institutions. Whether you're passionate about infrastructure, scaling systems, or shaping the developer and end-user experience, you'll be working on high-impact projects at the intersection of blockchain and finance.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end development of backend services and APIs that support the Stellar ecosystem.
- Build, maintain, and scale reliable infrastructure and web services in support of mission-critical applications.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to understand developer or end-user needs and translate them into pragmatic solutions.
- Optimize backend systems for performance, scale, and maintainability.
- Contribute to open-source efforts, including SDKs, libraries, and tools.
- Engage in architectural design discussions, write detailed technical specifications (RFCs), and contribute to SDF's engineering best practices.
- Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing across teams.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, software design patterns
- Proficiency in backend development with languages such as Go, Python, Rust, Java, or C++
- Experience deploying and operating production web services at scale
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to lead technical discussions
- Product-driven mindset; interest in improving developer or user experience
- Experience working on blockchain or financial technology (preferred)
- Passionate about open-source software; contributed to open-source projects (preferred)
- Worked on products where developers or builders are the primary users (preferred)
- Experience with Go (preferred)
Compensation
Base salary range of $185,000–$275,000.
Location
New York, Hybrid