Job description
About the job
This client is one of the largest blockchain development companies in the world building out household name applications across finance. They are looking for Quantitative Trading System Architect within the Crypto trading team. The Crypto Trading team’s mission is to design, build, and maintain services that power and accelerate our crypto products, platforms, and operations, with the goal of building the world’s best crypto trading platform.
Key Responsibilities
This client is one of the largest blockchain development companies in the world building out household name applications across finance. They are looking for Quantitative Trading System Architect within the Crypto trading team. The Crypto Trading team’s mission is to design, build, and maintain services that power and accelerate our crypto products, platforms, and operations, with the goal of building the world’s best crypto trading platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and optimize the company’s institutional trading matching engine, ensuring stable and efficient performance under high concurrency and load
- Design and implement high-performance, low-latency matching algorithms tailored to market dynamics and evolving business needs
- Optimize performance and architecture of key modules such as order matching, matching algorithms, and order book management
- Participate in architecture planning for trading systems to ensure high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and system performance
- Design efficient strategies for messaging queues, databases, and caching to support large-scale concurrent trading requests
- Lead continuous architectural optimization and system refactoring to improve fault tolerance, maintainability, and operational stability
- Handle high-concurrency transaction requests while maintaining fast order matching and system responsiveness
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and enhance performance through code optimization, concurrency control, and database tuning
- Design and implement load balancing and distributed processing strategies to ensure high throughput with low latency
- Understand market structure and trading rules to design efficient, compliant matching algorithms
- Continuously analyze and iterate algorithm performance to ensure fairness and matching efficiency
- Track financial market innovations and explore new trading models and optimization strategies to drive technical innovation
- Serve as a technical leader guiding team members through research and development efforts
- Lead design of technical solutions and solve key challenges through innovation
- Work closely with product, operations, and QA teams to ensure smooth development and timely delivery of the matching system
- Ensure trading system security by contributing to secure architecture design to defend against attacks and misuse
- Participate in disaster recovery design and simulation exercises to guarantee rapid system recovery and business continuity
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics, or related fields
- 5+ years of backend development experience, with at least 3 years in building matching systems for financial domains (e.g. securities, futures, foreign exchange)
- Proven ability to design and develop high-concurrency, low-latency systems; deep understanding of financial trading workflows and technical infrastructure
- Proficient in distributed systems architecture; hands-on experience with message queues, databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis), and caching strategies for scalable trading platforms
- Strong expertise in high-performance computing, memory management, and concurrent programming
- Skilled in designing low-latency matching engines and algorithms aligned with trading rules
- Familiarity with Spring Boot / Spring Cloud frameworks
- Solid experience in Java multithreading, concurrency control, and JVM performance tuning
- Understanding of financial instruments and trading mechanisms across securities, derivatives, and forex markets
- Experience with blockchain and digital asset trading systems is highly desirable
- Background in financial derivatives platforms, securities exchanges, or market-making solutions is a plus
- Proficiency in container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes; exposure to cloud platforms like AWS or Azure and distributed deployment patterns
- Project management experience with frameworks like PMP or Scrum, enabling efficient delivery in agile environments
- Fluency in English and Mandarin are essential, with prior experience in crypto or fintech being highly desirable
