Senior Staff Software Engineer Liquidity Platform Options Market Making
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 9/2/2026
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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, develop, and operate automated options market-making systems across pricing, quoting, execution, hedging, positions, and risk controls. You will improve performance and reliability, apply AI coding tools, strengthen testing and monitoring, resolve incidents, and lead technical design for core modules.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related discipline
- At least two years of experience in backend engineering, real-time systems, infrastructure, or trading systems
- Proficiency in Java, Rust, or C++
- Knowledge of operating systems, networking, multithreading, concurrency, and distributed systems
- Experience using and validating AI coding tools
- Experience with Linux development and runtime environments
- Experience with asynchronous processing, network I/O, and high-performance data structures
- Experience developing real-time data or trading interfaces
- Ability to design and optimize high-throughput low-latency systems
- Experience with testing, monitoring, logging, metrics, and recovery systems
- Options market-making or quantitative trading experience is preferred
Responsibilities
- Design and operate automated options market-making systems
- Develop market data, pricing, quoting, execution, hedging, and risk modules
- Translate trading requirements into production systems
- Improve performance, stability, and maintainability
- Apply AI coding tools across the engineering lifecycle
- Improve testing, monitoring, alerting, and recovery
- Participate in incident resolution and post-incident reviews
- Own technical design and code review for core modules
Benefits
- Education subsidy
- Wellness and meal allowances
- Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
- Various team building programs and company events
