Backend Engineer, Integrations & APIs

San Francisco, United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

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.
Not a blockchain as you know it, something new.
experience in Rust, C++ or both (our codebase uses both). - Proven track record of designing and building robust RPC/API services that handle real-world, high-scale traffic. - Deep understanding of database architecture, indexing, and query patterns. - You are a builder who takes ownership of production infrastructure, not just prototypes.
experience building or operating blockchain infrastructure (nodes, RPC layers, indexers) in production. -
Experience with a testnet or mainnet launch.

Bonus Points if (optional): - Prior
We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $140,000 - $210,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and
benefits: USA Benefits/Perks: - 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

Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.
About the Project & Team: At the SDF, a small team of roughly 8 engineers is incubating a novel distributed systems prototype.
This is a rare opportunity for a zero-to-one build where much of the infrastructure and tooling does not exist yet.
To be clear: this is not a maintenance role for our existing network, nor is it an academic research project.
We are actively building a high-performance platform designed to handle real value.
We operate as a fast-moving, highly technical team with no layers of management.
You will work directly with the protocol architect and core systems engineers to take this completely greenfield project to production.
If you thrive on the urgency of a new launch and want the agility of an early-stage startup with the stability of SDF, this is the place to be.
About the Role: We need a Backend/Systems Engineer who owns the critical layer between our core infrastructure and the outside world.
The public API, indexing, data pipelines, and everything that makes the system usable by developers and partners.