Senior Rust 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 8/14/2026
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.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, implement, and optimize high-performance trading APIs over HTTP and WebSocket. You will build real-time ingestion pipelines, model trading data, manage WebSocket feeds, maintain state consistency, and instrument production systems for observability, low latency, resilience, and correctness under load.
Requirements
- Rust
- Backend engineering
- Tokio
- Concurrency
- Structured concurrency
- HTTP
- WebSocket
- Hyper
- Trading systems
- CEX
- DEX
- Real-time streaming
- State ingestion
- Event-driven systems
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- Metrics
- Logging
- Tracing
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Performance optimization
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of high-performance trading APIs
- Implement structured concurrency with Tokio
- Process append-only trading logs
- Rebuild local state from snapshots and diffs
- Model orders, fills, trades, positions, funding, and liquidation logic
- Implement WebSocket upgrades, frame parsing, and data fanout
- Design observable backend systems
- Improve performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Write unit, integration, and load tests