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Senior Backend Engineer (Trading)

Shanghai💼 Full-time🗓 2025-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and optimize core trading systems (spot and futures) supporting high concurrency and low latency for a regulated crypto exchange.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (Trading Systems)

Builds

High-performance trading infrastructure including matching engines, order reception, fund settlement, and market data distribution.

Domain

Cryptocurrency exchange / Financial Trading

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Java, concurrent programming, JVM tuning, Netty, Disruptor, distributed system design, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, order book design, matching algorithms

Preferred skills

Low-latency system development, quantitative trading collaboration, financial exchange experience

Technologies

Java, Netty, Disruptor, Kafka, Redis, MySQL

Responsibilities

Develop core trading modules (order reception, matching, settlement), optimize system performance for millisecond-level response, design distributed architectures for high availability, implement trading rules (margin management, position closing), support API interfaces for quantitative teams, monitor systems and formulate disaster recovery plans.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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