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Senior Backend Engineer (Blockchain & Trading Infra)

Star Global’s backend engineer builds core trading and digital-asset infrastructure. The role focuses on order routing, risk controls and transactional consistency across low-latency systems.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Implement high-throughput trading components
Design consistent state and failure-recovery mechanisms
Profile latency and resource bottlenecks
Integrate trading and wallet-related financial workflows

What they ask for

Required

Five years of relevant backend engineering
High-concurrency distributed systems
State machines and consistency
Financial-system design
Custody or blockchain familiarity
Clear architectural judgement

Preferred

Deep Java/Rust/C++ skills transferable to Go

Education: No formal degree requirement is specified.
Experience: Five years in trading, fintech or related backend work.
Languages and tools: Go
Java
Rust
C++
Markets: crypto

How to prepare

Design an order-state machine with recovery tests
Explain data-consistency trade-offs across services
Benchmark a trading backend and document failure behaviour

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