Senior Staff Software Engineer Liquidity Platform
OKX is a leading global cryptocurrency exchange offering a wide range of trading services, including spot and derivatives trading, as well as Web3 solutions.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About OKX
OKX is a global cryptocurrency exchange known for its trading services and financial products. The platform offers a wide range of features, including spot and derivatives trading, staking services, and a user-friendly interface suitable for both beginners and experienced traders.
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About the Role
You will design, build, and operate low-latency systems for crypto liquidity provision across trading venues. You will develop connectivity, execution and pricing services, market-data pipelines, risk controls, monitoring, reconciliation workflows, and data platforms while improving performance and reliability in a 24/7 environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline
- 3–8 years of software or data engineering experience
- Java
- Rust
- C++
- Python
- Distributed systems
- Concurrent programming
- JVM internals
- Garbage collection
- FIX 5.0+
- WebSocket
- HTTP/2
- REST
- TCP
- UDP
- SQL
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kafka
- Linux
- Unix
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- AWS
- AliCloud
- GCP
- Market microstructure
- Order lifecycle
- PnL
- Margin
- Leverage
- Market risk
- Blockchain
- Crypto markets
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable low-latency trading infrastructure and microservices
- Maintain connectivity to centralized exchanges, DeFi venues, and counterparties
- Develop strategy, execution, pricing, trading bot, position, risk, and analytics services
- Optimize high-throughput order execution
- Build real-time market-data pipelines
- Implement pre-trade risk controls, circuit breakers, rate limiters, and risk calculations
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and auto-recovery
- Build data models, reconciliation workflows, and data-quality controls
- Profile and eliminate latency hotspots
- Collaborate with trading, product, risk, finance, and operations stakeholders
- Conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers
Benefits
- L&D programs
- Education subsidy
- Team building programs
- Company events
- Wellness allowances
- Meal allowances
- Healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
