Ultra-Low Latency Trading Platform Expert

The Trading Service team is responsible for the core order and position management systems, enabling a full spectrum of trading products, including manual, automatic, and social trading, as well as brokerage services.

Our platform supports diverse financial instruments such as spot, margin, futures, options, and perpetuals.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our elite Trading Service team as a pivotal technical leader shaping the future of our ultra-low latency, high-throughput trading platform.

This is a highly impactful individual contributor role for an exceptional engineer with a deep passion for financial markets and cutting-edge technology.

You will own and drive the architectural direction for critical system components, solve the most complex technical challenges across multiple teams, and significantly influence our engineering practices and technical roadmap.

Your work will directly empower millions of users and underpin the efficiency of our industry-leading exchange.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own the long-term technical architecture and strategy for core trading platform components, ensuring alignment with business goals and operational excellence
• Spearhead the design and implementation of highly challenging, ambiguous, and cross-cutting technical projects that span multiple engineering teams
• Identify and eliminate critical performance bottlenecks across the entire trading architecture, implementing advanced low-latency and high-throughput solutions in Java
• Serve as a definitive technical authority and subject matter expert in core trading systems and Java performance; provide technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers
• Stay abreast of industry trends, research emerging technologies (e.g., new concurrency models, hardware acceleration), and propose innovative solutions to enhance the platform's competitive edge
• Design highly resilient, fault-tolerant systems and drive best practices in monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post-mortem analysis for mission-critical trading infrastructure
• Collaborate extensively with Stakeholders to translate strategic business needs into highly efficient and scalable technical solutions; influence product roadmaps from a technical feasibility and architectural sustainability perspective
• Evangalize and enforce high standards in software engineering design, coding, testing, and deployment practices across multiple teams

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or a strong STEM education background)
• 10+ years of extensive professional experience designing, building, and operating high-performance, ultra-low latency distributed systems in Java
• Expert-level proficiency in Java for performance-critical applications, including profound knowledge of JVM internals, garbage collection tuning, and advanced concurrency patterns
• Proven experience as a technical leader or architect for major system components, demonstrating the ability to drive technical direction, with exceptional expertise in message-oriented middleware
• Deep understanding of network protocols, OS-level optimizations (Linux), hardware considerations, database technologies (SQL and NoSQL), and strong track record of driving DevOps practices, CI/CD, and monitoring

What We Offer:

• Competitive total compensation package
• L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees' growth and development
• Various team building programs and company events
• Wellness and meal allowances
• Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants