Jobs at Stellar Development Foundation

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.

The Director of Research will lead the research agenda at SDF, fostering collaboration with academic and industry partners, overseeing research efforts, building a team, and translating research outcomes into practical impacts.

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.

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

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

Own end-to-end brand and content design across campaigns, product launches, and multi-channel marketing. Develop narrative-driven visual concepts, evolve the design system, manage production lifecycles and agency partners, lead high-visibility projects, and introduce scalable components and AI tools to improve creative output.

Design and execute end-to-end brand and marketing creative across digital, social, web, print, and motion. Evolve design systems, manage production lifecycles and agency relationships, prioritize concurrent projects autonomously, and present work to senior stakeholders while driving creative strategy and team process improvements.

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.

Lead SDF's APAC business development: define regional priorities, execute in-market engagement across five hubs, build and close partnerships with fintechs and banks, coordinate internal teams to drive integrations, manage pipeline in HubSpot/Airtable, represent SDF at events, and translate market intelligence into product and strategy recommendations.

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 and contribute to product design across Stellar’s products, set design vision, maintain and scale the design system, mentor a designer, partner with PMs and engineers, use AI-assisted workflows, and run user research and usability testing to ship pixel-perfect user-centered experiences.

Founding Product Operations Lead to design and run the product operating system, standing up planning cadences, roadmap and execution tracking, PM enablement, and tooling. Improve visibility, automate workflows (including AI/agentic solutions), capture product artifacts and feedback, and partner closely with Engineering and Product leadership to scale product processes without adding bureaucracy.

Lead product design across Stellar Development Foundation products as a player-coach: set design vision, contribute high-fidelity work, manage and mentor a designer, scale the design system, leverage AI-assisted workflows, partner with Product and Engineering, and run user research and usability testing.

Stand up and own the product operating system and cadences for the Product organization: roadmaps, planning cycles, execution tracking, and PM enablement. Improve visibility, build feedback loops, capture high-quality product artifacts, and identify opportunities to automate work using AI and agentic workflows. Partner closely with Engineering and Product leadership to scale a high-performing product culture.

Lead product strategy and roadmaps across Stellar network areas (core protocol, payments, DeFi, developer experience, AI agents). Rapidly validate ideas using AI-assisted prototypes, work closely with engineering and design, engage users and partners, and ship high-quality products while measuring impact.

Lead the business development team to grow Monthly Active Accounts and payment volume on the Stellar blockchain. Drive go-to-market strategies for payouts, wallet growth, stablecoins, DeFi, merchant onboarding, and verticals like international aid. Manage strategic relationships with payment service providers, coordinate regulatory and government relations support, run regional events, and own OKRs for account growth and payment volume.