Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Core

at Stellar Development Foundation

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Core
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $180,000 - $290,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Open Source, Rust
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer designing and implementing key components of Stellar Core. Collaborating with engineers and community to scale the Stellar Network.

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 with our CTO, team of engineers, and community of open source developers.
• Write clean, maintainable code with emphasis on edge case analysis and future-proofing.
• Own core subsystems of Stellar Core and help the team hit critical product milestones.
• Collaborate on code review and design, contributing to best practices for all engineering at SDF.
• Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks to continue scaling the system.
• Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications, encouraging participation in RFC processes.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience developing software on a team
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field
• Excel in writing code in modern C++ or Rust in a production environment
• Great communicator that can advocate and lead technical discussions
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, reusable, extensible, and modular components
• Knowledgeable of best practices and development tools, passionate about technological innovation
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Enthusiastic about working on a small, growing team with a lot of autonomy
• Open, empathetic, and care about putting the best ideas forward in a collaborative and helpful manner

Benefits

• 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
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both non-birthing and birthing parents, as well as up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy 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