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Senior Rust Backend Engineer for Innovative Trading Infrastructure

startaleJapan; Remote; Singapore
Remote Full-time

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Experience Level

Senior

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities Own the architecture and technical direction for high-performance trading APIs (HTTP & WebSocket) that facilitate low-latency order entry, market data distribution, and account state updates. Lead the design and implementation of structured concurrency using the Tokio runtime, establishing best practices for task lifecycle management, cancellation semantics, backpressure, and graceful degradation under load. Develop and maintain real-time state ingestion pipelines: Process append-only logs (e.g., trades, order updates, book diffs). Efficiently rebuild local states using snapshot + diff application. Model trading-related data structures, including orders, fills, trades, positions, funding, and liquidation logic. Implement WebSocket connection management to ensure resilience and performance.

About the job

About Us

At startale, in collaboration with one of the world's largest financial conglomerates, we are on a mission to revolutionize the trading landscape by bringing Japanese equities on-chain. Our goal is to establish a secure, transparent, and high-performance trading infrastructure capable of supporting institutional trading volumes while remaining accessible to retail investors. We are developing a cutting-edge decentralized exchange featuring a fully on-chain order book, designed with a custom state transition function and a consensus layer specifically for high-performance, low-latency trading. Our aim is to create a trustless platform that matches the speed and efficiency of traditional trading engines while maintaining complete transparency by executing as close to the blockchain as possible.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Rust Backend Engineer with substantial experience in constructing high-performance, reliable trading APIs (HTTP & WebSocket). In this role, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and optimization of the backend services that power our trading interfaces, ensuring low latency, resilience, and accuracy under load.

You will engage with high-throughput, real-time systems that manage order and trade data ingestion, handle live WebSocket feeds, and maintain the internal consistency of state from streaming market events. The ideal candidate will be a proficient Rust engineer and a systems thinker, able to reason about concurrency, data flow, and observability in production environments.

This position provides a unique chance to influence the architecture of our trading backend at an early stage, collaborating with a distributed team of experienced engineers to build next-generation financial infrastructure.

About startale

Startale is at the forefront of integrating blockchain technology into the financial sector, working with a leading financial conglomerate to enhance trading efficiency and transparency. Our innovative approach aims to redefine how trades are executed, ensuring that both institutional and retail participants can benefit from a more secure and accessible trading environment.

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