SeniorSoftwareEngineer,Wallets

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 https://www.freighter.app/, 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 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. You have: - 5+ years of experience developing software as part of a collaborative team. - Strong computer sc