Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Liquidity Platform

深圳; 香港. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will design, build, and maintain scalable, low-latency trading infrastructure and microservices for 24/7 crypto markets. You will work with liquidity managers, product managers, and traders to develop strategies, services, and infrastructure.

What you will do

Design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant, low-latency trading infrastructure and microservices.
Build and maintain connections with centralized exchanges, DeFi venues, and counterparties using FIX 5.0+, WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST.
Develop core services including strategy and execution engines, automated quoting and trading bots, and risk and analytics systems.
Design and optimize high-throughput order execution for sub-millisecond latency.
Build real-time market data pipelines to aggregate order books and price feeds.
Implement pre-trade risk controls, circuit breakers, rate limiters, and PnL/risk calculations.
Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and auto-recovery for 24/7 stability.
Build reliable data models, reconciliation processes, and data quality controls.
Use garbage-free coding and lock-free concurrency to eliminate latency hotspots.
Collaborate with liquidity managers, product managers, traders, risk, finance, and operations teams.

Required qualifications

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
3–8 years of software or data engineering experience depending on seniority.
Proficiency in one or more of Java (17+), Rust, C++, or Python.
Deep understanding of high-performance, low-latency distributed systems and multi-threading/concurrency programming.
Familiarity with JVM internals and GC behavior.
Practical experience with FIX 5.0+, WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST API.
Ability to optimize network protocols and TCP/UDP.
Solid SQL skills (MySQL, PostgreSQL) including schema design and performance tuning.
Experience with Redis and Kafka.
Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments.
Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS, AliCloud, GCP), and on-premise infrastructure.
Understanding of market microstructure, order lifecycle, PnL, margin, leverage, and market risk.

Nice to have

Financial background.
Experience in proprietary trading, market making, quantitative research, or front-office technology at exchanges, banks, or investment institutions.
Experience with execution algorithms (TWAP, VWAP, Iceberg, Sniper, Smart Order Routing) and backtesting/strategy simulation frameworks.
Experience with low-latency tools and IPC: Aeron, Chronicle Queue, Disruptor, shared memory messaging, Agrona Collections, Protocol Buffers, SBE.
Familiarity with Spring, Netty, and other frameworks/libraries.
Experience with modern data platforms (Spark/PySpark, Iceberg, ClickHouse, InfluxDB), workflow orchestration (Airflow, Celery), and machine learning tools (MLflow, TensorFlow).
Deep understanding of DeFi, blockchain, smart contracts, and crypto exchange APIs.
Experience with event contracts or prediction markets.
Agentic programming capability using AI programming tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex).
Risk and compliance experience.

Benefits

Competitive total compensation package
Learning and Development (L&D) programs and education subsidies
Team building and company activities
Health and meal allowances
Comprehensive medical insurance for employees and dependents

About the company

ogroup's liquidity platform provides cutting-edge technology covering all aspects of cryptocurrency trading. The engineering team manages the full trading lifecycle, from exchange connectivity and execution to strategy, data, risk, and analytics.