Stellar

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. Africa is not a future opportunity for Stellar — it is an active one. We have live integrations with fintech and payment companies across West and East Africa and a growing cohort of builders developing on Stellar rails, and relationships with some of the continent's leading financial institutions and ecosystem partners. We are now hiring a senior, Africa-based leader to own and scale this momentum — someone who can operate at the intersection of business development, ecosystem strategy, and institutional relationship-building, and who will serve as SDF's most visible and accountable presence on the continent. You will define how SDF shows up in Africa, shape the strategy that gets executed, and be directly accountable for the outcomes — builder pipeline, live integrations, institutional partnerships, and the long-term health of Stellar's African ecosystem. In this role, you will: - Own SDF's Africa business development effort — defining priorities, allocating effort across five hub markets (Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Ethiopia), and adapting the playbook by market needs and expectations. - Lead in-market execution across all five hub markets, including structured annual visits to each hub that deliver across a full engagement programme: conference presence, owned ecosystem meetups, top-tier builder roundtables, incubator and accelerator partnerships, strategic institutional meetings, and policy and regulatory introductions. - Build and close high-value partnerships with fintech companies, payment platforms, wallets, ramps, and developer teams building on Stellar, driving active pipeline companies through to live Stellar integration and sustained network volume. - Develop and manage SDF's institutional relationships across the continent — including major telcos (MTN, Airtel Africa, Vodacom), tier-1 banks (Access Bank, Equity Bank, Standard Bank, GTBank, KCB Group), and development finance institutions — identifying and progressing partnership opportunities that drive volume at infrastructure scale. - Cultivate relationships with Africa's leading incubators and accelerators — including iceaddis, iHub, Mowblox, LoftyInc, Tony Elumelu Foundation, and 88mph — to generate sustained builder pipelines and increase Stellar's visibility among early-stage founders making infrastructure decisions. - Serve as the internal champion and voice of the African market within SDF — translating on-the-ground intelligence into strategic recommendations, influencing product priorities, and ensuring the broader organisation understands the region's nuances, opportunities, and constraints. - Serve as SDF's primary relationship owner for Africa-based ecosystem partners throughout their journey — from initial engagement through integration and growth — facilitating connections across the Stellar ecosystem that accelerate partner success. - Build and maintain rigorous pipeline discipline across HubSpot and Airtable, ensuring integration status, relationship health, and strategic context are accurately captured and accessible to the broader team. - Drive post-visit content production in partnership with the marketing team — including trip reports, video, blog posts, and social content — that amplifies SDF's presence and narrative across African markets. - Represent SDF at flagship regional conferences and events, and own the design and execution of SDF's owned events on the continent, including builder roundtables and ecosystem meetups in each hub city. You have: - Bachelo

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. About the Project & Team: At the SDF, a small team of roughly 8 engineers is incubating a novel distributed systems prototype. Not a blockchain as you know it, something new. This is a rare opportunity for a zero-to-one build where much of the infrastructure and tooling does not exist yet. You will be building it. To be clear: this is not a maintenance role for our existing network, nor is it an academic research project. We are actively building a high-performance platform designed to handle real value. We operate as a fast-moving, highly technical team with no layers of management. You will work directly with the protocol architect and core systems engineers to take this completely greenfield project to production. If you thrive on the urgency of a new launch and want the agility of an early-stage startup with the stability of SDF, this is the place to be. About the Role: We need a Backend/Systems Engineer who owns the critical layer between our core infrastructure and the outside world. The public API, indexing, data pipelines, and everything that makes the system usable by developers and partners. Today, nobody owns this layer end-to-end. Pieces exist, but the JSON-RPC endpoint, transaction status tracking, analytics pipelines, and data services are a greenfield waiting for an owner. This role benefits enormously from someone who has already been through a complex infrastructure launch (like a testnet or mainnet). You know what breaks, what gets skipped and regretted later, and what "production-grade" actually means for infrastructure that handles real value. What the First Few Months Look Like: - Month 1: Understand the system architecture end-to-end. Get the full stack running locally. Own the JSON-RPC spec and start building. - Month 2-3: Working RPC endpoint. Submit a transaction, query its status, check a balance. Indexer serving the block explorer. Transaction lifecycle fully instrumented. - Beyond: Data pipelines, partner integrations, API hardening, load testing. Bake in the production readiness that comes from having done this before. In this role, you will: - Public API Layer: Design and build the JSON-RPC endpoints that external tools, SDKs, and wallets use to communicate with the core network (transaction submission, status queries, account state). - Transaction Lifecycle: Own the full path from client to consensus and back. Status tracking, error reporting, and timeout handling. - Indexer & Query Backend: Build the data backend that powers the block explorer, partner integrations, and historical state queries. - Data & Observability: Build out analytics pipelines (e.g., BigQuery population) and implement robust metrics and event logging using tools like Prometheus, Clickhouse, and Sentry. - Cross-Functional Impact: Work across service boundaries, getting comfortable reading code in components you don't own to understand how they behave. You have: - Strong systems or backend programming experience in Rust, C++ or both (our codebase uses both). - Proven track record of designing and building robust RPC/API services that handle real-world, high-scale traffic. - Deep understanding of database architecture, indexing, and query patterns. - You are a builder who takes ownership of production infrastructure, not just prototypes. Bonus Points if: - Prior experience building or operating blockchain infrastructure (nodes, RPC layers, indexers) in production. - Experience with a testnet or mainnet launch. We offer competitive pay with a base salary

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. Marketing Counsel at SDF is a high-impact role at the center of how SDF shows up to the world. You will partner across Marketing, Communications, Product, Business Development, Ecosystem, Policy, and Legal to help teams move quickly while keeping external messaging, campaigns, grants, product launches, events, brand protection, and partner-facing work aligned with SDF’s legal, regulatory, reputational, and mission-driven priorities. This role extends well beyond traditional marketing review: you will advise on high-volume public-facing assets, strategic communications, marketing grants, major events, digital properties, brand and IP matters, and scalable legal processes that help SDF tell its story responsibly in a fast-moving industry. This is a rare opportunity for someone who wants meaningful ownership, close partnership with senior business leaders, and room to build deep expertise at the intersection of blockchain, payments, digital assets, advertising, consumer protection, and global public policy. In this role, you will: - Own legal review for SDF’s outward-facing marketing and communications materials across channels, including social, web, mobile, PR, blogs, digital ads, decks, FAQs, event collateral, scripts, product explainers, disclosures, and early-stage campaign concepts. - Advise Marketing, Communications, Product, Business Development, Ecosystem, Policy, and Legal stakeholders on public-facing content, campaign strategy, product messaging, partner marketing, and external positioning. - Identify and help mitigate legal, regulatory, reputational, contractual, privacy, and consumer protection risk in external-facing work. - Provide end-to-end legal support for marketing aspects of broader strategic business deals, including diligence, KYC coordination, drafting, negotiation, deliverables, and payment mechanics. - Serve as a legal partner to Marketing leadership on marketing strategy, campaign planning, thought leadership, strategic messaging, and cross-functional issues involving Marketing, Product, BD, Comms, Events, Ecosystem, and Legal. - Support SDF-owned and third-party events, by advising on event strategy, venue and vendor contracts, sponsorships, waivers, releases, collateral, activations, and time-sensitive operational issues. - Support SDF’s brand and IP function, including trademark portfolio management, brand policy questions, brand asset use, naming and rebrand initiatives, clearance coordination, contested IP matters, and brand protection. - Review and advise on product-related launch materials, webpages, explainers, FAQs, and announcements where product functionality, user understanding, external messaging, or legal sensitivity intersects with Marketing or Communications. - Help develop and maintain practical legal processes, templates, guidelines, playbooks, training, and intake workflows that allow teams to move efficiently while staying aligned with SDF’s risk tolerance and public posture. - Draft, review, and negotiate marketing, advertising, SaaS, event, vendor, sponsorship, strategic partnership, grant, and services agreements related to Marketing and other outward-facing initiatives. You have: - J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar. - At least 3 years of relevant law firm and/or in-house legal experience, ideally in marketing, advertising, product, media, technology, financial services, fintech, payments, blockchain, or digital assets. - Working knowl