Jobs at Startup Talents

Design, develop, benchmark, and maintain high-performance Rust infrastructure extending the EVM with security-focused precompiles and parallel processing. Own complex features through delivery, collaborate across teams, review code, fix bugs, and contribute to open-source crypto infrastructure. Apply expertise in Ethereum execution systems, low-level programming, profiling, memory management, testing, databases, concurrency, and performance optimization.

Lead business development and regional expansion across Africa for a crypto wallet infrastructure provider. Own go-to-market strategy, revenue, ARR, enterprise sales, partnerships, RFPs, negotiations, and client expansion across banks, fintechs, and enterprises. Serve as senior regional representative, build regulator relationships, support post-sale success, and collaborate with product and engineering teams. Travel across Africa, monitor market trends, represent the company at industry events, and improve sales playbooks.

Designs and owns complex Rust infrastructure features for a blockchain security framework, including EVM extensions, security-focused precompiles, parallel processing, performance optimization, benchmarking, testing, debugging, and open-source contributions. Collaborates across teams, supports bug fixes, reviews code, and contributes to technical roadmap decisions. The role requires deep Rust and Ethereum expertise, low-level systems programming experience, and strong knowledge of performance optimization, memory management, and concurrent systems.

Own frontend features from concept through launch and iteration. Build web and mobile applications for a wallet-as-a-service platform, develop SDKs and integration tools, and create secure, intuitive fintech-grade user experiences. Collaborate with Product and Design, write documentation, review code, and maintain high standards for architecture, performance, and security.

Owns the complete HR and People Operations function for an international, remote-first scale-up. Responsibilities include recruiting, onboarding, performance management, payroll and benefits, employee relations, compliance, offboarding, engagement, retention, compensation, career development, HR systems, and company culture. The role partners with leadership and legal, organizes retreats and internal events, and builds scalable HR processes as the company grows.

Lead frontend development for a DeFi platform, owning React and TypeScript architecture, Solana integrations, transaction flows, real-time blockchain data, and high-performance user experiences. Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver features, establish engineering standards, review code, and mentor future frontend hires. The role requires production frontend expertise, deep Solana knowledge, and leadership of projects or teams.

Principal Solutions Engineer responsible for leading client onboarding, designing and presenting blockchain wallet solutions, supporting integrations, troubleshooting technical issues, and providing post-implementation guidance. The role partners with sales, product, engineering, and clients on strategic deals, RFPs, technical proposals, documentation, demos, training, competitive analysis, and product feedback. Strong expertise in TypeScript, APIs, AWS, distributed systems, cybersecurity, and crypto custody is required.

Own backend and AI infrastructure for autonomous trading agents. Build the Go-based agent runtime, execution and data layers, real-time trading systems, deployment platform, model hosting migration, telemetry, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response. Develop production services primarily in Go, Python, and TypeScript while operating AWS EKS infrastructure. The role requires end-to-end ownership of reliable, low-latency systems managing real-time trading and financially sensitive positions.

Drive Near Intents adoption through partner integrations, technical support, documentation, tutorials, SDKs, and reference implementations. Serve as the primary technical contact for developers and ecosystem partners, troubleshoot integration issues, engage communities across multiple channels, conduct workshops and AMAs, advocate for developer needs, and monitor adoption metrics. The role requires strong TypeScript and software development experience, preferably in Web3 or blockchain, with GCP and Kubernetes experience as a bonus.

Own the company’s ecosystem-driven growth strategy, expand infrastructure adoption across DeFi and application ecosystems, and scale customer acquisition through strategic partnerships. Develop and execute an end-to-end ecosystem strategy, collaborate with technical and cross-functional teams, onboard partners, and drive measurable growth across EVM and Solana ecosystems. The role requires autonomous leadership, strong communication, and deep familiarity with crypto, Web3 infrastructure, and on-chain yield.

Owns commercial legal matters, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating SaaS agreements, NDAs, DPAs, MSAs, partnerships, and vendor contracts. Supports Sales, Product, and Operations, manages vendor due diligence and KYB checks, develops scalable contract templates and playbooks, advises on legal and regulatory risks, and ensures compliance with data protection, financial services, fintech, and blockchain requirements.

Own the architecture and delivery of mission-critical backend projects for a secure crypto wallet infrastructure platform. Define database, microservice, and integration architecture; resolve performance and reliability issues; improve CI/CD, observability, and engineering processes; shape technical strategy; mentor engineers; and support client discussions. The role requires deep backend, cloud, database, security, and applied cryptography expertise, with leadership experience in fintech or blockchain.

Lead the design, development, testing, optimization, monitoring, and maintenance of scalable backend systems and APIs. Build production-grade solutions for blockchain and DeFi use cases, conduct code reviews, document technical processes, troubleshoot complex problems, and mentor junior developers. Collaborate with frontend, product, and design teams while maintaining high availability, security, performance, and code quality across the Node.js and TypeScript technology stack.

Design, build, and operate secure core infrastructure for MPC signers, HSMs, TEEs, distributed databases, and blockchain-connected services. Develop low-level Rust middleware, secure APIs, and networking; optimize performance, reliability, latency, and resource usage; integrate cryptographic protocols into production; and collaborate with infrastructure, security, research, product, clients, and partners.

Own discovery, planning, and delivery for crypto-native, user-facing products. Research daily crypto users, define requirements, manage the backlog, and ship features with engineering and design. Make data-driven decisions on chains, wallets, and protocols; coordinate with compliance, marketing, support, and operations; and represent the company in crypto communities. The role requires strong product judgment, payments and checkout expertise, practical DeFi knowledge, wallet UX familiarity, and experience driving adoption across distributed teams.

Build and maintain secure, scalable APIs, backend services, platform infrastructure, and cloud systems for a Web3 wallet infrastructure provider. Responsibilities include designing resilient distributed systems, improving performance and availability, implementing monitoring and security controls, managing releases, writing comprehensive tests, resolving complex issues, documenting solutions, supporting customers, and collaborating across technical and business teams.

Principal Frontend Engineer responsible for architecting and maintaining a high-performance, real-time trading web application using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Jotai. The role owns frontend features, optimizes mobile performance, manages real-time data and WebSockets, ensures code quality, and partners with founders and leadership on technology, product, and feature decisions. Experience building interactive trading platforms, particularly in DeFi, is required.

Design and operate secure, scalable, highly available infrastructure for a low-latency decentralized exchange and blockchain network. Own infrastructure automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes performance, observability, security, incident response, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and reliability practices. Mentor engineers, document systems, and participate in on-call rotations while supporting high-throughput trading workloads.

Design, build, optimize, deploy, and maintain Rust-based smart contracts powering a Solana DeFi protocol. Collaborate with engineering, product, and research teams on secure, scalable protocol features; develop developer tooling, SDKs, and integrations; monitor production on-chain services; and independently drive protocol initiatives from research through mainnet deployment. The role requires production smart contract experience handling real funds and strong blockchain and DeFi knowledge.

Own the architecture and operation of backend infrastructure supporting high-volume crypto trading. Build real-time pipelines for order books, trades, and market events; design GraphQL and WebSocket APIs; manage PostgreSQL, Redis, and ClickHouse data systems; optimize latency, caching, schemas, and queries; monitor reliability; debug performance issues; and collaborate with frontend and mobile teams.