Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Trading Services

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Trading Systems team at OKX, you lead the design and evolution of mission-critical order, execution, position, and risk infrastructure that powers our global trading platform. You combine deep systems expertise with strong ownership, investigating root causes, raising quality standards across the engineering lifecycle, and turning individual learning into reusable team capability.

What you'll do

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of complex, high-performance C++ trading systems.
• Design reliable distributed systems, including consistency, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies across system boundaries.
• Own work end to end, from technical proposals and design reviews through framework refactoring, implementation, deployment, production debugging, replay, and validation.
• Solve low-level systems challenges involving networking, protocols, concurrency, memory management, performance, and operating-system-level behaviour.
• Drive architectural improvements by identifying systemic issues and anti-patterns, such as overly coupled or "God Class" designs, and redesigning components with clear responsibilities.
• Build proactive quality safeguards, including automated testing, failure-injection scenarios, stability validation, monitoring, and replay-based verification.
• Design controlled experiments to validate architectural assumptions and diagnose complex production issues beyond surface-level symptoms.
• Work effectively across heterogeneous technology stacks, making sound engineering decisions at language, service, and platform boundaries.
• Independently explore and apply AI-assisted engineering practices across code understanding, solution design, cross-review, incident analysis, test validation, and knowledge capture.
• Raise engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvements to development practices.
• Mentor engineers and share practical knowledge through documentation, playbooks, technical sessions, and reusable frameworks.

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field; equivalent practical experience is also valued.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with substantial experience building production C++ systems.
• Strong experience designing and evolving complex systems, with a clear understanding of architectural trade-offs.
• Proven knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, network programming, and performance optimisation in Linux-based environments.
• Hands-on experience with distributed consistency, high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, or other system-level reliability designs.
• Strong understanding of computer systems fundamentals, including networking protocols, operating systems, memory, storage, and runtime behaviour.
• A track record of taking ownership proactively, from defining the problem to delivering and validating a robust solution.
• Exceptional debugging and analytical ability, with a habit of investigating why issues occur rather than simply applying short-term fixes.
• Experience using automated tests, simulation, replay, or comparative experiments to validate system behaviour and reliability.
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative mindset; able to turn experience into documentation, standards, and practices that help the whole team.

Nice to have

• Experience with exchange, brokerage, trading counter, order management, execution, market data, or other low-latency financial systems.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or high-throughput distributed platforms.
• Familiarity with Rust, Java, Go, Python, or other languages used in multi-language production environments.
• Practical experience applying AI tools to improve software engineering workflows and code quality.
• Experience working with globally distributed, cross-functional engineering teams.

What we offer

• Competitive total compensation package
• Learning and development programs and education subsidy for your growth and development
• Various team building programs and company events
• Wellness and meal allowances
• Comprehensive healthcare schemes for you and your dependants

About OKX

OKX is a leading crypto exchange and developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralised crypto applications. OKX is trusted by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets and is backed by Proof of Reserves. OKX is part of OKG, a group bringing the value of blockchain to users worldwide through products including OKX, OKX Wallet, and OKLink.

OKX will prioritise applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore and do not require visa sponsorship.