Golang Stellar Jobs Paying 150,000 USD a Year

Job Description

Open to considering remote candidates in the US & Canada

Interested in helping us change the world of payments forever? The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is looking for a talented, experienced, and hands-on engineer to assist partners with integrating into the Stellar network. In this role you’ll be designing, building, and implementing innovative blockchain solutions for our partners. You will lead the way in developing projects, from scoping & system design to development & best practice deployments. SDF’s partners span globally and are some of the most innovative software and financial companies.

What you'll do:

• Be involved with all aspects of the software development process - from vision to final implementation.
• Design new platform functionality with the corresponding APIs for external developers.
• Build and maintain web services to support the foundation’s mission (creating equitable access to the global financial system).
• Identify patterns in developer needs and design new protocols and services to increase developer velocity across our entire ecosystem.
• Engage with our community of open source developers and partners on projects that encompass many different frameworks, languages, and ideas.
• Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
• Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks in order to continue scaling our API services.
• Provide assistance and guidance for our integration projects with our partners and other organizations on the Stellar network.
• Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications - we take design seriously, and we encourage everyone to be a part of our RFC processes.

Who you are:

• 5+ years real-world experience developing or implementing software within enterprise networks
• Solid understanding of web technologies: TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, JSON, REST, etc
• Proficiency with programming languages such as JavaScript, Go, C++, Python, or similar
• Ability to lead technical discussions and explain technical details to non-technical people
• Independent and results driven. Skilled at working in an environment with dynamic objectives (maybe you even thrive on chaos)
• You’re a strong problem solver and fast learner
• You’re passionate about top quality code and using the latest best practices
• You build software with your users and their needs top of mind
• You're a true partner advocate.

About Stellar

Stellar is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts.

About the Stellar Development Foundation

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world’s financial infrastructure. Founded in 2014, the Foundation helps maintain Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.

We look forward to hearing from you!

SDF is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SDF does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law.

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Senior Software Engineer, Platform - Go/Microservices

You're a seasoned polyglot engineer that is driven, takes ownership and is solution oriented and ready to join a stellar new team working on cross product foundational platform, shared by all our products written in Go. You'll be building robust and scalable software in multiple modern object oriented and functional languages. And making the company transitions to microservices using Go and Kafka.

As a part of this role, you will:

• Implement reactive design patterns, microservices, and REST APIs
• Work on integrations with other internal and external teams
• Participate in creating and clarifying User Stories, and in planning Sprints
• Dive into hard problems and successfully deliver great results on schedule
• Design and implement asynchronous, multi-processor solutions
• Learn new languages and choose the right language to solve the problems at hand, and work in Go
• Think in multi-threaded, asynchronous, and multi-processor solutions

Required Qualifications:

• 5 or more years professional programming experience
• 2 or more years experience with two or more object oriented or functional languages (each), OR any substantial experience with Go, professionally or on-the-side
• Experience with AWS or other cloud services

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Service-oriented architecture (SOA), microservices, and REST APIs
• Experience in scaling applications
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with Ruby, Python, or Go
• Experience with Apache Kafka
• Comfortable working on small, cross-functional, fast paced teams
• Excellent communication skills

Perks & Benefits

• Excellent medical benefits
• 401(k) match up to 5%
• Life insurance policy for every employee, at no cost
• Fitness reimbursement
• Cell phone and home internet reimbursement
• Carpool and parking pass cash-out program
• Generous maternity/paternity leave
• Employee assistance programs
• Fully stocked kitchen with fresh fruit and delicious snacks and beverages
• Monthly catered lunches
• Soft serve machine 24/7
• Great eateries close by, oh, and we’re near the beach!
• Massage chairs and bicycles
• Onsite free parking
• Company events
• Flexible PTO
• Flexible work hours/work from home
• Professional development
• Education reimbursement

Interview Process

• Phone screen with recruiter
• Call with Hiring Manager
• Assessment
• In-person interviews (all in one day)