Senior Backend Engineer
Startale Group is an onchain-finance company building products that bring digital assets, stablecoins, and blockchain applications to users and institutions. Its offerings include Startale App, a digital-asset superapp, and Startale USD (USDSC), a U.S. dollar stablecoin.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
Funding history
About Startale Group
Startale Group develops an onchain-finance ecosystem spanning consumer and institutional use cases. Its Startale App enables users to hold, swap, earn, and spend digital assets, access onchain mini apps, and collect rewards. The company also issues Startale USD (USDSC), a U.S. dollar stablecoin built on M0 and backed by short-term U.S. Treasuries, and provides developer resources for building within its ecosystem. It supports partners building mini apps and works with institutions on tokenized capital-markets and stablecoin initiatives.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own backend systems across StartaleApp and other products, designing APIs and services, building scalable data pipelines, managing databases, integrating blockchain infrastructure, and operating reliable production systems. You will work across Web2 and Web3 infrastructure and solve complex scalability, performance, and reliability challenges.
Requirements
- Backend engineering
- TypeScript
- NestJS
- Fastify
- Express
- API design
- Service-oriented architecture
- Distributed systems
- PostgreSQL
- Database management
- Data pipelines
- Observability
- Blockchain integration
- Blockchain indexing
- Wallet architecture
- DeFi protocols
- Docker
- CI/CD
Responsibilities
- Own backend architecture and implementation across multiple products
- Design and maintain scalable production APIs and backend services
- Build and operate high-performance distributed systems
- Build data pipelines, background workers, asynchronous processing systems, and event-driven architectures
- Build blockchain integrations and indexing systems
- Design database schemas and optimize queries
- Diagnose production issues and performance bottlenecks
- Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, deployment pipelines, and system reliability
Benefits
- Ownership opportunities