Principal Backend Development Engineer (C++)

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Company

hirify.global is a cryptocurrency exchange and digital financial platform providing trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3 products to users across more than 200 countries and regions.

What you will do

• Design and develop core derivatives trading systems for order processing, position management, and real-time account risk controls across perpetual contracts, futures, and options.
• Design high-performance data structures, concurrency models, and event-processing mechanisms that maintain consistency across orders, trades, positions, and account balances.
• Translate trading rules and risk requirements into clear, verifiable system implementations with product, risk management, and operations teams.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, performance testing, and production troubleshooting to improve engineering quality and observability.

Requirements

• Fluency in English.
• At least 5 years of C++ development experience, including hands-on work building high-performance, highly concurrent, or low-latency systems.
• Proficiency in modern C++, including object lifetimes, memory management, templates, and the STL, with the ability to write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code.
• Deep understanding of multithreading, atomic operations, memory models, and thread synchronization, including diagnosing and resolving concurrency correctness and performance issues.
• Experience with Linux systems programming and network programming, including TCP/UDP, I/O multiplexing, and common network performance bottlenecks.
• Understanding of CPU caches, cache coherence, false sharing, and NUMA, with experience using tools such as perf for performance analysis and optimization.
• Experience designing complex stateful systems and addressing event ordering, idempotency, state consistency, and fault recovery.
• Strong focus on correctness and reliability, solid analytical skills, and the ability to independently investigate complex issues, design solutions, and implement them.

Nice to have

• Experience developing systems for exchanges, brokerages, futures trading, quantitative trading, or financial infrastructure.
• Familiarity with derivatives trading mechanics, including margin, leverage, isolated and cross margin, mark prices, funding rates, liquidation, and settlement.
• Experience with lock-free data structures, CPU affinity, memory pools, zero-copy techniques, or SIMD optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Study Growth Fund supporting professional development and continuous learning.
• Regular team-building activities, workshops, and internal events.
• Global collaboration with an international team.
• Career advancement opportunities and internal mobility within a rapidly expanding company.