Senior/Staff Engineer - Exchange Middle Platform (Crypto)

TL;DR

Senior/Staff Engineer - Exchange Middle Platform (Crypto): Building and optimizing core exchange systems, including matching engines, real-time market data gateways, and trading infrastructure for spot, futures, perpetual swaps, and options, with an accent on low latency, high availability, and scalability. Focus on designing distributed systems, optimizing concurrency and memory usage, diagnosing low-level performance issues, and supporting high-throughput trading workloads.

Location: Singapore; current right to work in Singapore required, with no visa sponsorship available

Company

OKX is a crypto exchange and blockchain product company providing trading, wallet, and decentralized application services.

What you will do

• Design and implement core systems for spot, futures, perpetual swap, and options trading products.
• Build and improve real-time market data gateway components.
• Optimize trading architecture for low latency, high availability, and scalability.
• Diagnose and resolve complex system issues using profilers, debuggers, and log analyzers.
• Perform low-level debugging, including assembly-level analysis when required.

Requirements

• Expertise in Java or C++, object-oriented programming, concurrency, and system-level programming.
• Experience developing and optimizing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly available systems.
• Strong knowledge of performance tuning, memory management, data structures, algorithms, system design, and network protocols.
• Experience with profilers, debuggers, log analyzers, and low-level system debugging.
• Solid STEM education background.
• Current right to work in Singapore; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience at large internet companies and supporting large-scale peak traffic.
• Experience with low-latency systems, real-time applications, or high-frequency trading platforms.
• Knowledge of message-oriented middleware or asynchronous programming.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud platforms.
• Experience applying AI technologies to improve efficiency.
• Mandarin and English bilingualism.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package.
• Learning and development programs with an education subsidy.
• Team-building programs and company events.
• Wellness and meal allowances.
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage for employees and dependants.