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.

