Jobs at Stellar Development Foundation

Own the institutional content marketing program for Stellar, producing case studies, white papers, solution briefs, ABM content, executive thought leadership, event materials, and multi-channel campaigns. Partner with business development, product marketing, digital strategy, sales, legal, executives, and agencies to influence banks, asset managers, payment companies, and other enterprise buyers. Measure content performance, support account growth, and communicate blockchain and regulated-finance concepts with accuracy and strong evidence.

Own the institutional content marketing program for Stellar Development Foundation, creating case studies, solution briefs, thought leadership, ABM content, event materials, and multi-channel campaigns for banks, asset managers, payment companies, and other regulated financial institutions. Partner with sales, business development, product marketing, digital strategy, executives, legal, and agencies to drive evaluation, decision-making, engagement, and account growth.

Leads Stellar Development Foundation’s ecosystem growth team and builder support programs, including the Stellar Community Fund. Oversees founder discovery, selection, funding, mentorship, launch, and portfolio growth. Manages senior program and community managers, sets strategy and performance metrics, evaluates portfolio traction, and partners across business development, developer relations, marketing, legal, and finance. Uses data, AI tools, and automation to improve program scale and outcomes while representing SDF at industry events.

Lead the ecosystem growth team supporting founders building on Stellar. Oversee builder discovery, selection, funding, launch, mentorship, accelerator, liquidity, and security-audit programs. Manage senior program and community managers, define strategy and metrics, evaluate portfolio performance, improve processes using data and automation, and coordinate with business development, developer relations, marketing, legal, and finance. Represent the organization at ecosystem events and help funded teams achieve user adoption, retention, follow-on funding, and sustainable growth.

Leads Stellar’s Solutions Engineering function, managing Solutions Architects and Engineers while overseeing enterprise partner integrations from discovery through production support. The role combines people leadership, systems architecture, technical escalations, partner engagement, program design, quality standards, hiring, training, and certification. It also partners with Product and Engineering to address ecosystem needs, improve tooling, and scale repeatable engagement models for blockchain integrations.

Leads Stellar’s Solutions Engineering function, managing Solutions Architects and Engineers while overseeing enterprise partner integrations from discovery through production support. Provides architectural guidance, technical escalations, and quality oversight for scalable blockchain integrations. Establishes engagement models, partner tiering, SLAs, documentation, training, and certification programs. Collaborates with Product and Engineering on partner-driven roadmap priorities and represents SDF in strategic technical discussions.

Design, build, and maintain Stellar Core, the distributed system powering the Stellar blockchain. Responsibilities include developing scalable network components, improving peer-to-peer and processing performance, strengthening resilience and decentralization, investigating bottlenecks, authoring protocol specifications, and contributing to architecture, code reviews, and open-source engineering practices.

Design, build, and maintain Stellar Core, the distributed system powering the Stellar blockchain ledger and consensus. Develop scalable, resilient components; improve peer-to-peer networking and processing performance; investigate bottlenecks; and contribute to architecture, code reviews, RFCs, formal verification, simulations, and open-source collaboration. The role requires production C++ or Rust expertise, strong software design skills, and ownership of core subsystems.

Manage partner integration programs for the Stellar blockchain network, coordinating engineering, business development, marketing, product, and account management teams. Own partner roadmaps, lead technical and business meetings, resolve dependencies and blockers, maintain program documentation, measure performance against OKRs, and establish scalable program-management processes. The role requires technical fluency, financial services experience, blockchain familiarity, strong communication and leadership skills, and willingness to travel internationally.

Manage partner software and product integrations with the Stellar Network, coordinating engineering and business stakeholders from launch through completion. Own partner roadmaps, dependencies, risks, milestones, documentation, and program performance. Lead technical and business meetings, establish scalable program-management processes, and ensure delivery against organizational goals. The role requires strong communication, organization, problem-solving, technical fluency, and experience working with external partners in financial services and blockchain environments.

Lead and manage the Site Reliability Engineering team, establish vision, define processes for collaboration, design robust infrastructure, and mentor team members while ensuring service availability and system reliability.

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team by establishing the vision, mentoring members, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating on infrastructure and tooling.

Lead enterprise payments business development to grow monthly active accounts and payment volume on the Stellar network. Build and execute go-to-market strategies across B2B2B/B2B2C payouts, marketplaces, PSPs, and neobanks; manage strategic accounts and target lists; integrate RWA and DeFi opportunities cross-functionally; and close complex, high-value commercial deals while representing Stellar at regional and global events.

Lead business development to grow Stellar payments adoption and monthly active accounts. Build target lists, manage strategic enterprise and fintech relationships, close deals across payments, stablecoins, DeFi and RWA, and coordinate cross-functional execution to drive payment volume and wallet growth.

Design, build, and implement changes to Stellar Core while working on performance improvements, decentralization, and incentive mechanics. Collaborate on architectures and contribute to code reviews under the Stellar Development Foundation.

Design and build key components of Stellar Core, improve system performance, collaborate on architecture, and lead technical discussions.

Design and develop key components of Stellar Core while collaborating with team members. Engage in performance optimization and ensure the system's scalability and security.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and develop key components of Stellar Core, enhance blockchain technology, and collaborate with engineering teams.

Build and maintain end-to-end wallet products and supporting services (including Freighter). Design scalable data models, implement user-facing interfaces, develop backend services, engage with open-source community, participate in design and code reviews, and integrate applications with the Stellar network to improve wallet and financial application experiences.

Design, build, and deploy end-to-end wallet features (Freighter) and supporting services. Implement scalable backend systems, client interfaces, and data models. Collaborate on design, code reviews, and open-source community integrations to improve the Stellar ecosystem and wallet experiences.