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About the Role

Lead Stellar’s Solutions Engineering function, enabling enterprise partners to successfully design, build, and operate production-grade integrations on the Stellar network. This role owns the forward-deployed Solutions Engineering function end-to-end, supporting partners from technical discovery through production launch and ongoing support, ensuring integrations are scalable, future-proof, and aligned with the long-term evolution of the Stellar ecosystem. Operate at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and strategic partner engagement, combining people management, architectural depth, and program ownership.

Responsibilities

Own and continuously refine Stellar’s Solutions Engineering program, including engagement models, partner tiering, and escalation paths.
Build, manage, mentor, and grow a team of Solutions Architects and Solutions Engineers.
Lead end-to-end technical partner engagements, from early discovery and solution design through production launch and ongoing support.
Serve as a senior technical escalation point for high-tiered partners.
Provide hands-on architectural leadership, including guiding system and integration design, reviewing proposed architectures, and helping derisk integrations.
Set and uphold a high technical quality bar for enterprise integrations, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and future-proof.
Collaborate closely with the Product and Engineering teams to surface recurring partner needs and tooling gaps, and inform roadmap prioritization.
Design and scale repeatable engagement models, including partner tiering, SLAs, documentation standards, and feedback loops.
Oversee hiring, onboarding, training, and certification program for solutions engineers.
Represent SDF in strategic partner conversations, deep technical reviews, and selective onsite engagements.
Continuously improve the Solutions Engineering program based on learnings from live integrations, postmortems, and evolving partner needs.

Requirements

Significant experience leading customer-facing engineering or solutions teams, ideally in blockchain, fintech, or financial infrastructure.
Strong technical background enabling leadership in architectural discussions and system-level trade-offs.
Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams.
Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments and defining structure, process, and best practices.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience working directly with enterprise or institutional partners, including senior technical stakeholders.
Willingness to travel occasionally for partner engagements.
Strong sense of ownership and accountability for program outcomes.

Skills

Blockchain
Fintech
Financial infrastructure
Distributed ledgers
Financial market infrastructure
Forward-deployed engineering
Certification programs
Training programs
Partner enablement programs
Open-source contributions
Ecosystem-driven platforms

Location

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior leadership (L4+)

Salary/Compensations

$172,000 - $258,000

Benefits

Competitive health, dental & vision coverage (100% for employee + dependents)
Flexible time off
15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
Generous paid parental leave
Paid pregnancy disability leave
Gym reimbursement ($80/month)
Life & ADD (up to $50K)
Short & Long term disability
401K with 4% match
Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
Commuter benefits ($250/month employer contribution)
Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
Family building benefits through Kindbody
Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
L&D budget ($1,500/year)
Daily lunch and snacks in office
Company retreats
Lumen-denominated grants

About the Company

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.
Stellar is more than a blockchain. Powered by a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network made for financial products and services and a thriving and passionate ecosystem that includes a non-profit organization driven by a mission, Stellar is paving the path to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.
Built with speed and low costs in mind, the Stellar network provides builders and financial institutions worldwide a platform to issue assets, and to send and convert currencies in real time creating real world utility.
Founded in 2014, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) supports the continued development and growth of the Stellar network and also serves the ecosystem of NGOs, corporations, universities, small businesses, governments, and solo entrepreneurs building on the Stellar network through tooling, funding and strategic collaborations.
Together, Stellar is where blockchain meets the real world.
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization focused on working with and supporting change-makers to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology.
SDF provides grants, investments, funding, and other awards to builders and organizations.
SDF also develops resources and tooling on the Stellar network to help unlock real world utility.
As a nonprofit foundation, SDF puts the health of the Stellar network and the Stellar ecosystem and its mission above all else.

Equal Opportunity

SDF is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SDF does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law.