Senior Software Engineer, C++

🕒 October 23, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $180k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Stellar Development Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

Crypto • Fintech • Finance

Stellar Development Foundation is a nonprofit organization that develops and supports the Stellar public blockchain, a decentralized network optimized for fast, low-cost, and energy-efficient cross-border payments, asset tokenization, and DeFi. SDF provides developer tools, documentation, grants, and enterprise-grade infrastructure and compliance support for builders, fintechs, wallets, and financial institutions to launch payment, tokenization, and financial products at scale.

📋 Description

• Design and build key components of Stellar Core • Collaborate on new architectures and subsystems • Write clean, maintainable code • Own core subsystems of Stellar Core • Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks • Author detailed technical feature and protocol specifications

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of experience developing software on a team • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field • Proficiency in modern C++ or Rust in a production environment • Solid understanding of software design patterns • Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking • Experience with designing and implementing distributed systems (bonus) • Strong curiosity in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies (bonus)

🏖️ 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