Senior Software Engineer – Core
| Company | Stellar Development Foundation |
|---|---|
| Location | Union City, NJ, USA |
| Salary | $180000 – $290000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience developing software on a team.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
- Proficient in writing code in modern C++ or Rust in a production environment.
- Solid understanding of software design patterns, and how to build components that are reusable, extensible, and modular.
- Knowledgeable of best practices and development tools and passionate about technological innovation.
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking.
Responsibilities
- Design and build key components of Stellar Core – the backbone software behind the Stellar Network.
- Design and develop robust, scalable, and extensible technologies that empower our developers and network participants.
- Collaborate on new architectures and subsystems, working alongside our CTO, our team of engineers, and our community of open source developers.
- Write clean, maintainable code with an emphasis on edge case analysis and future-proofing our work.
- Own core subsystems of Stellar Core, and help the team hit critical product milestones.
- Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
- Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks in order to continue scaling the system.
- Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with designing and implementing distributed systems.
- Strong curiosity in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, and understanding the fundamentals of these systems.