Smart Contract Jobs at 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.

The highest engineering priority at the SDF this year is the creation and deployment of a state-of-the-art smart contracting framework for the Stellar blockchain. Smart contracts are expected to turbocharge innovation and growth on Stellar. This is a unique opportunity to come in at the ground floor of a nascent blockchain smart contracting framework.

You will have technical oversight and ownership of the smart contract platform, a technically challenging and high impact role, with significant autonomy to execute on the creation of a development stack that will profoundly impact the entire Stellar ecosystem. As smart contracts gain mindshare, we expect ongoing rapid iteration and innovation. Accordingly, the role has excellent potential for growth.

In this role, you will:

• Provide the technical and strategic leadership to enable the success of the smart contracts developer toolchain on Stellar
• Execute with urgency, owning sprint-level tactical decisions and judgment calls
• Manage and coordinate a team of exceptional engineers building out greenfield production platform infrastructure
• Support the rollout, adoption and scale-out of Stellar’s smart contract platform
• Jump in as needed with code and hands-on contributions
• Work with blockchain experts, ecosystem pioneers and stakeholders
• Mentor and grow your team members through feedback, mentoring and career guidance

You have:

• 5+ years of experience writing code in a major language
• 3+ years of experience managing a software team
• Experience designing and building out programmatic APIs
• Experience working with either distributed systems OR mission critical software in a high-level language
• Highly autonomous; able to find clarity in ambiguous circumstances
• Excellent communicator; comfortable working with remote team members

Bonus Points if:

• You have created developer tools for smart contract developers
• You have developed top tier smart contracts
• You are proficient in Rust
• You have managed a distributed team