Senior Backend Engineer

Blockchain
- Singapore (Remote)
- Posted 6 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Industry: FinTech Crypto Platform

Fully Remote

Competitive Package + Flexibility

This position requires outstanding technical proficiency, professionalism, solid communication, exceptional problem-solving skills, and an eager attitude.

Strong written and oral communication is a must as the applicant will frequently be interacting with the business stakeholders and product teams to achieve the business strategic business goals.

Essential Functions / Responsibilities

Analyze Business/Product requirements and propose effective and efficient technical solutions in delivering changes and innovations to the their Exchange Accounts landscape within expected parameters of cost, time, and quality
Work with a project focus group (product engineering, product management, architecture, and CTO) to compile a work breakdown structure of tasks for given deliverables and provide realistic estimates for completion or project assignments.
Design, implement and maintain robust and effective solutions for client balances management, exposure monitoring, assets allocation, and locking for active orders that operate in real-time high throughput environment.
Develop and unit test all functional Account Management related modules created or modified according to software development best practices.
Together with Client APIs and Matching Engine Teams, develop, evolve and maintain effective internal components communication protocols between all elements on the Pro Exchange landscape.
Develop and maintain the respective operational benchmarking and monitoring models for all landscape modules related to the Pro Account Management infrastructure
Collaborate with other Developers, SREs, and QA Engineers to execute full-cycle integration, functional, and regression testing. Own and resolve all priority defects identified within the solution codebase efficiently and in a timely fashion
Promote software changes across all environments, safely and responsibly, through Development, Staging environments to deploying updates to the Production environment in a zero-downtime manner
Provide on-call Level 2 technical support during business and, occasionally, off hours depending on rotation, act as an escalation point for the Level 1 support in case of severe issues
Participate in team exercises to identify and implement areas for continuous improvement, and be proactive in bringing your ideas across
Educate and mentor your engineering colleagues in the areas of your own expertise and domain knowledge, and be open-minded and approachable

Experience Required

A minimum of 5 years of experience working in the financial trading domain (exchanges, proprietary trading firms, market makers, brokers, etc.) At least 2 years working in the crypto industry.
General understanding of the general Exchange microstructure model and components
Experience in developing high-load and high-throughput systems, serving large (thousands to millions) amounts of incoming API connections.
Good understanding of the CEX operating principles and client-facing APIs (market data, ordering, balance monitoring, historical inquiries, etc.)
Experience in designing and building various Exchange Risk Management engines and models, specifically: Margin Models and Engines, Liquidation Models and Engines and Derivative Contract Models, specifically:
crypto futures/option
perpetual futures
perpetual options
Experience working in small focus teams of high-skilled developers.

Necessary Skills

Good knowledge of the Linux operating system
Solid hands-on experience in Go
Understanding or messaging protocol engines and models (gRPC, Protobuf, Thrift, Avro, etc.)
Hands-on experience working with one of the Message Broker solutions (Kafka, RocketMQ, etc.)
Hands-on experience with the Continuous Integration principles (unit testing, pull requests, GitHub, or any specific continuous integration engine like GitLab/Jenkins/etc.)
Solid hands-on experience in building high memory load models and high throughput data processing pipelines
Good knowledge of code analysis and profiling techniques and tools (for example, Coverity, Valgrind, etc.)
Personal: self-sufficient with good hard and soft skills, committed and responsible, able to perform well under pressure

Preferred/Bonus Skills

Experience in C++ and/or Java (optional)
Experience working with Application Containers and Container Orchestrators (example: Kubernetes or Nomad)
Experience working under Continuous Delivery and Zero-Downtime models (for example: blue-green deployments, canary deployments, etc.)
Knowledge of Google Cloud and AWS Cloud Infrastructure and components (products)
Good understanding or experience in Scrum methodology
Understanding various trading models, types of trading, and rationale behind trading and market making
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