Staking Facilities GmbH

Rust Engineer

Staking Facilities GmbH

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Munich • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Node.jsRustWeb3

About the role

  • You’ll work as the first dedicated Engineer in this new venture.
  • Expect deep technical challenges, real ownership, and the thrill of helping define how capital markets evolve on-chain within one of Europe’s most respected blockchain companies.
  • Design and implement backend services in Rust, optimized for throughput, reliability, and low latency
  • Build systems that connect on-chain and off-chain components, from smart contract interactions to market data ingestion and execution logic
  • Collaborate closely with infrastructure and validator teams to leverage bare-metal performance and low-latency access to blockchain networks
  • Work with live trading data and performance monitoring tools to profile, test, and tune production systems
  • Contribute to architecture design sessions, helping define how we scale a multi-chain platform
  • Collaborate with experienced engineers across Staking Facilities to extend node infrastructure and on-chain APIs
  • Shape technical direction, influence tooling and processes, and grow with the project as it scales

Requirements

  • Proficient in Rust, with experience writing safe, performant, and maintainable code
  • You’re excited about Web3, decentralized finance, and the emerging internet of capital markets.
  • Comfortable working independently and taking ownership in an early-stage setup
  • Curious and self-motivated, you enjoy learning new systems, exploring blockchain tech, and tinkering with complex problems
  • Based in Europe or nearby time zones (CET overlap)
  • Fluent in English, with strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Familiar with concepts like order books, limit orders, and exchange mechanics, or eager to learn
  • Existing experience with smart contracts, on-chain transactions would be ideal
Benefits
  • Building from almost 0 within a proven, established blockchain company
  • Work directly with senior engineers and Defi professionals on cutting-edge challenges
  • Excellent salary plus long term upside potential through planned equity or profit participation
  • A high-trust, remote-first culture with a base in Munich and a globally distributed team
  • 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Flexible working hours
  • Team events and conferences such as Solana Breakpoint, Berlin Blockchain Week, and Sui Base Camp
  • Generous learning and development budget and mentorship from experts across DeFi and infrastructure
  • A friendly, diverse, and values led team that prioritizes meaningful work and shared success

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Rustsmart contractson-chain transactionsperformance monitoringbackend serviceslow latencythroughput optimizationmarket data ingestionexecution logicmulti-chain platform architecture
Soft skills
ownershipindependencecuriosityself-motivationstrong communicationcollaborationproblem-solving