Senior Software Engineer, CLI

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 Developer Experience Team, you will work on the products that help developers onboard and create applications on the Stellar Network. Our team builds a few applications, some of them being Stellar Laboratory, Stellar CLI and the Stellar Javascript SDK. You will play a pivotal role as a visionary technical leader, shaping and innovating the tools that serve as the backbone of our customers' experiences. This role has a direct impact in making the Stellar tooling the best in the industry and will be working very closely with our Product and Developer Relations teams. In this role, you will join our Developer Experience team, focusing on Stellar CLI development for the Stellar Network. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with a passionate, mission-driven team dedicated to empowering developers and advancing open financial infrastructure worldwide.

In this role, you will :

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the Stellar CLI
• Collaborate closely with Product and Developer Relations teams to enhance developer experience
• Innovate and improve existing tools for all projects under the DevX umbrella
• Develop and enhance smart contract tooling capabilities within the Stellar ecosystem to support secure, scalable decentralized application development
• Contribute to making Stellar tooling the best in the industry
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership
• Collaborate with Platform, DevRel and Ecosystem engineering teams to ensure we are shipping pragmatic solutions
• Engage with the developer community to gather feedback and implement improvements

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We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $170,000 - $260,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits :

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About Stellar

About the Stellar Development Foundation

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization focused on working with and supporting changemakers to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology. SDF provides grants, investments, funding, and other awards to builders and organizations. SDF also develops resources and tooling on the Stellar network to help unlock real world utility. As a nonprofit foundation, SDF puts the health of the Stellar network and the Stellar ecosystem and its mission above all else.

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