Senior Software Engineer, Platform
About the Role
You will build mission-critical platform infrastructure, libraries, services, and APIs that developers use to interact with the Stellar blockchain. You will design new platform functionality and developer-facing APIs, implement scalable web services, investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks, and author technical specifications (RFCs). You will collaborate in code reviews and design discussions, engage with the open-source community, and support production services across multiple languages and runtimes.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software development experience on collaborative teams
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithms
- Knowledge of distributed systems and information retrieval
- Proficiency writing server applications in Go, Python, Rust, C#, Java, or C++
- Experience supporting production web services at scale
- Ability to write reusable, extensible, and modular components using design patterns
- Experience with performance optimization, debugging, and benchmarking
- Excellent communication skills for technical discussions and reviews
- Familiarity with existing frameworks and open-source tooling
- Autonomous working style and collaborative mindset
Responsibilities
- Design developer-facing APIs
- Build and maintain scalable web services
- Implement platform functionality and architecture
- Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks
- Author detailed technical specifications (RFCs)
- Collaborate on code reviews and design discussions
- Engage with the open-source community
- Support production web services at scale
- Drive projects from vision to implementation
Benefits
- Lumen-denominated grants
- Competitive health dental and vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee and dependents
- Flexible time off plus 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
- Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing and birthing parents and up to 14 weeks paid pregnancy leave for birthing parents
- Gym reimbursement of $80 per month
- Life and AD&D insurance up to $50,000
- Short and long term disability
- 401K with 4% employer match
- Health and Dependent Care FSA accounts
- Commuter benefits with $250 per month employer contribution
- Health Savings Account with monthly employer contribution
- Family building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits including One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace
- Learning and development budget of $1,500 per year
- Daily lunch and snacks in office
- Company retreats