3 months ago
Hong Kong, Hong Kong or Singapore, SingaporeSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant, low-latency trading infrastructure and microservices for 24/7 crypto market operations.
- Build and maintain connectivity to centralized exchanges, DeFi venues, and counterparties using FIX 5.0+, WebSocket, HTTP/2, REST, and on-chain data integrations.
- Develop strategy and execution engines, automated pricing and trading bots, order execution and position tracking, trade and position data platforms, and risk and analytics systems.
- Optimize high-throughput, sub-millisecond order execution and build real-time market-data pipelines aggregating order books and price feeds across venues.
- Implement pre-trade risk controls, circuit breakers, rate limiters, position and PnL calculations, alerting, and high-availability architecture.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and auto-recovery to keep trading strategies stable, scalable, and self-healing.
- Build data models, reconciliation workflows, and data-quality controls with clear lineage, reproducibility, and documentation.
- Profile and eliminate latency hotspots using garbage-free coding and lock-free concurrency.
- Collaborate with liquidity managers, product managers, desk developers, risk, finance, and operations to deliver production solutions.
- Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and uphold scalability, resiliency, maintainability, and security practices.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline is required.
- Typically 3–8 years of software or data engineering experience is expected, ideally involving trading, OMS, middle/post-trade, or latency-sensitive systems.
- Strong proficiency in one or more of Java, Rust, C++, or Python is required.
- Strong understanding of high-performance distributed systems, concurrent programming, and, where relevant, JVM internals and garbage-collection behavior is required.
- Hands-on experience with FIX 5.0+, WebSocket, HTTP/2, REST APIs, and network protocol or TCP/UDP optimization is expected.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka are preferred or required for relevant teams.
- Comfort with Linux/Unix, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and on-premise infrastructure is expected.
- Understanding of market microstructure, order lifecycles, PnL, margin, leverage, and market risk is required.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills are required; English fluency is required and Chinese/Mandarin is a strong plus.
- Interest in crypto markets, blockchain, and the broader financial industry is expected.
- Experience in proprietary trading, market making, quantitative research, or front-office technology is a plus.
- Experience with execution algorithms, backtesting, strategy simulation, DeFi, blockchain, smart contracts, crypto exchange APIs, risk and compliance, or professional certifications such as CFA or FRM is advantageous.
- Experience with low-latency tooling, modern data platforms, workflow orchestration, ML tooling, and AI coding tools is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package is offered, with no specific compensation figures stated.
- Learning and development programs and an education subsidy are available.
- Team-building programs and company events are provided.
- Wellness and meal allowances are provided.
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage is available for employees and dependants.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSC++ClickHouseDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformInfluxDBJavaKubernetesLinuxMLflowMySQLPythonRedisRustSQLTensorFlow
About OKX
OKX builds a global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 wallet used by retail and institutional traders for spot, derivatives, and DeFi access, with developer APIs. Its business model centers on trading and financing fees, plus wallet and on-chain services. Founded in 2017 and privately held, OKX publishes monthly proof-of-reserves and operates as part of the OKG group serving crypto markets worldwide.