Software Engineer, Developer Experience & SDKs

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 have a working Rust SDK and a core system approaching its first e2e test. What we don't have is the developer experience layer that turns "it works for us" into "anyone can build on it."

You will own the SDKs, developer tooling, documentation, and the initial technical onboarding for our partners. This starts as a hardcore building role (Rust/TypeScript SDK, docs site, faucet, CLI tooling) and grows to include Developer Relations as we bring partners onto the platform. We need an engineer who can write production-quality developer tools and act as the primary technical interface for our first external users. You ar...