Senior Software Engineer, Wallets

🕒 June 9

🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid

💵 $185k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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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

• 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 empower 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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: • You have experience with blockchain technology. • You have experience building data pipelines. • You have experience contributing to open-source projects. • You have experience specifically with Go and NodeJS

🏖️ 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 • Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability 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