Senior Rust Blockchain Engineer
Startale Group2 months ago
Remote, SingaporeSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement the on-chain order book and matching engine in Rust.
- Design and extend exchange-specific execution, risk-checking, account-management, and state-management logic.
- Develop protocol-level state transition, consensus, validator-interaction, and transaction-processing components.
- Integrate with oracles, bridges, and external data providers while ensuring correctness and resilience under adversarial conditions.
- Optimize execution for low latency, concurrency, and gas efficiency.
- Conduct benchmarking and stress testing to identify and resolve performance and throughput bottlenecks.
- Develop and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of systems programming experience, including at least 3 years in Rust.
- A proven track record building trading platforms, execution engines, or decentralized or centralized exchanges.
- Contributions to Rust-based Layer 1 protocol projects such as Solana, Cosmos SDK, or Substrate.
- Deep understanding of distributed computing, consensus algorithms, peer-to-peer networking, and high-performance data structures.
- Deep knowledge of decentralized trading models, including on-chain order books, automated market makers, and hybrid architectures.
- Ability to independently design and implement complex, production-grade systems.
- Competitive programming or algorithmic problem-solving experience is a bonus.
- Expertise in low-latency design, concurrency, and performance optimization is a bonus.
Benefits
- Primarily remote collaboration with occasional onsite offsite sessions for onboarding and more efficient collaboration.
- Competitive compensation is mentioned.
About Startale Group
Startale Group is a leading global web3 solutions provider on a mission to build the next civilization by bringing the world onchain. The company operates Astar Network, Japan’s largest public blockchain, and co-develops Soneium through Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint venture with Sony Group Corporation. Beyond chain development, Startale also builds consumer and developer products such as the Startale App, which serves as an all-in-one gateway to the Soneium ecosystem and beyond, uniting blockchain-native applications in a single intuitive experience.