Senior Rust Blockchain Engineer
Startale
WorldwideremotePosted 9 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 5+ years systems programming / 3+ years Rust
- Competitive compensation
- Remote with occasional onsite offsites
- Required experience with trading platforms or execution engines
Role overview
In partnership with SBI Group, we aim to bring the majority of Japanese equities on-chain, creating a secure, transparent, and high-performance trading infrastructure that can support institutional volumes while remaining accessible to retail participants. We are building a next-generation decentralized exchange with a fully on-chain order book using a custom state transition function and consensus layer designed for high-performance, low-latency trading. We are looking for a Senior Rust Engineer with strong expertise in system architecture and execution engines to design and implement the CLOB execution layer, including the order book, matching engine, and blockchain client logic. This role requires end-to-end ownership of critical components, from architecture to optimization.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement the on-chain order book and matching engine in Rust.
- Design and extend exchange-specific logic (order execution, risk checks, account/state management).
- Design and develop protocol-level components, such as state transition logic, consensus, validator interaction, and transaction processing pipelines.
- Implement integration with oracles, bridges, and external data providers, ensuring correctness and resilience in adversarial conditions.
- Optimize for low-latency execution, concurrency, and gas efficiency.
- Conduct benchmarking and stress testing to identify and address potential performance/throughput bottlenecks.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive suite of unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code reliability and functionality.
Requirements
- 5+ years of systems programming experience, with 3+ years in Rust.
- Proven track record building trading platforms, execution engines, or exchanges (DEX or centralized).
- Contributions to Rust-based L1 protocol projects (e.g., Solana, Cosmos SDK, Substrate).
- Deep understanding of distributed computing principles, including consensus algorithms, peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, and high-performance data structures.
- Deep knowledge of decentralized trading models (on-chain order books, AMMs, hybrid architectures).
- Ability to design and implement complex, production-grade systems independently.
Nice to have
- Experience with competitive programming or algorithmic problem solving.
- Expertise in low-latency design, concurrency, and performance optimization.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation.
- Unique opportunity to influence critical technical decisions and achieve career growth due to early stage of development.
Additional details
- Primarily collaborate with a remote team of experienced engineers.
- Occasional opportunities to work onsite during offsite sessions to support onboarding and enable more efficient collaboration.
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