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 enhance 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 (optional):