Bybit

(Principal) Backend Development Engineer

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2 days ago
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement user incentive, experience-improvement, and business-automation solutions, owning requirements, design, development, testing, rollout, operations, and evaluation.
  • Develop financial and incentive modules covering monetary calculations, disbursement, state transitions, idempotency, consistency, failure compensation, reconciliation, and auditing.
  • Build and productionize AI applications, AI-powered user experiences, AI agents, and agentic workflows integrating models, tools, and internal systems.
  • Establish evaluation, observability, safety controls, context and state management, recovery mechanisms, budget controls, human intervention, permissions, and deterministic safeguards for AI workflows.
  • Develop reusable AI-assisted engineering tools, skills, context conventions, and validation mechanisms for requirements, coding, testing, review, and troubleshooting.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field and at least four years of backend development experience; Go or Java experience is acceptable.
  • Strong programming fundamentals in concurrency, memory management, performance optimization, and troubleshooting of complex backend systems.
  • Experience developing distributed systems and handling concurrency conflicts, idempotency, duplicate messages, cross-service consistency, timeouts, and failure recovery.
  • Proficiency with backend technologies such as RPC frameworks, caches, message queues, and relational databases.
  • Hands-on experience using AI coding tools for requirements decomposition, system analysis, coding, testing, and code review while validating output quality.
  • Hands-on experience developing and deploying AI/LLM capabilities in real-world scenarios beyond basic tool usage or demonstrations.
  • Mandatory hands-on experience developing systems involving funds or monetary value, including areas such as rebates, settlement, reconciliation, payments, ledgers, vouchers, credits, or subsidies.
  • Ability to translate business goals into technical requirements and acceptance criteria, collaborate cross-functionally, and own production outcomes.
  • Preferred experience designing and iterating on AI agents and agentic workflows with tool calling, orchestration, context or memory management, state persistence, recovery, or human intervention.
  • Preferred experience evaluating agent performance using datasets, failure cases, execution traces, or business metrics; building team-wide AI-assisted engineering workflows; and owning complex cross-system projects.
  • Additional advantages include experience with retention or growth platforms, RAG, vector retrieval, knowledge bases, MCP, AI translation, search, agent orchestration frameworks, cryptocurrency exchanges, fintech, or relevant open-source projects.

Benefits

  • Study Growth Fund supporting professional development and continuous learning.
  • Internal team-building events, workshops, and collaboration activities.
  • Global collaboration with colleagues from around the world.
  • Career advancement opportunities within a rapidly expanding company.
  • Internal mobility opportunities to support long-term career development.

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About Bybit

1,001-5,000 employees

Bybit operates a cryptocurrency exchange and digital-asset platform for retail and institutional traders, offering spot and derivatives trading, payments, custody, and Web3 tools. Founded in 2018 and privately held, it serves a global user base and supports major assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Its business model centers on trading and financing fees and related services across its exchange and institutional offerings.

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