Senior Rust Backend Engineer for High-Performance Trading

Astar Foundation; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Growth opportunities

Collaboration with a world-class team

Job summary

A leading blockchain organization in Singapore is seeking a Senior Rust Backend Engineer to develop high-performance trading APIs and real-time data ingestion systems. The candidate should have over 3 years of rust experience in production and a strong understanding of trading systems. This role offers the opportunity to shape the architecture of next-generation financial infrastructure while collaborating with a distributed engineering team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Rust experience in production systems.
• Strong experience with the Tokio async runtime and concurrent programming patterns.
• Deep understanding of structured concurrency and robust task cancellation.
• Solid understanding of CEX/DEX systems and trading models.
• Expertise in designing systems for efficient state rebuilding from snapshots.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance trading APIs for low-latency order entry.
• Implement structured concurrency using the Tokio runtime.
• Develop real-time state ingestion pipelines with append-only logs.
• Model trading-related data structures and implement WebSocket connection logic.
• Design observable backend systems with metrics and logging.

Skills

Rust expertise

Concurrency

HTTP frameworks

WebSocket engineering

Real-time data streaming

Tools

Tokio

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Docker

Job description

A leading blockchain organization in Singapore is seeking a Senior Rust Backend Engineer to develop high-performance trading APIs and real-time data ingestion systems. The candidate should have over 3 years of rust experience in production and a strong understanding of trading systems. This role offers the opportunity to shape the architecture of next-generation financial infrastructure while collaborating with a distributed engineering team.