Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Liquidity Platform
Build and operate low-latency crypto trading infrastructure, including venue connectivity, automated pricing strategies, and risk systems for a global exchange.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Singapore, Singapore
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Prior 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.
- Low-latency tooling and IPC: Aeron, Chronicle Queue, Disruptor, shared-memory messaging, Agrona Collections, Protocol Buffers, SBE.
- Frameworks and libraries such as Spring, Netty, and Vert.x.
- Modern data platforms (Spark/PySpark, Iceberg, ClickHouse, InfluxDB), workflow orchestration (Airflow, Celery), and ML tooling (MLflow, TensorFlow).
- Strong understanding of DeFi, blockchain, smart contracts, and crypto exchange APIs; exposure to event-contract / prediction markets.
- Agentic programming fluency — hands-on use of AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) on real production work.
- Risk and compliance experience; professional certifications such as CFA or FRM.
Full description
Who We Are
At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual's freedom.
OKX is a leading crypto exchange, and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves.
Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles: We Before Me, Do the Right Thing, and Get Things Done. These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er.
About the Liquidity Platform
The Liquidity Platform provides cutting-edge technology that covers all aspects of crypto trading. We build low-latency connectivity to global crypto venues — across both CeFi and DeFi — strategy services for automated pricing and trading bots, high-frequency data capture and analysis, and state-of-the-art micro frontends for trading management. On top of this infrastructure, we build highly customized strategies to facilitate crypto liquidity.
Our engineering teams own the full trading lifecycle, from venue connectivity and execution to strategy, data, risk, and analytics. Our risk solutions are independent of trading logic, decoupled by design, and connected to 20+ trading venues across spot, derivatives, and event-contract markets. If you are a strong technologist excited about the potential of crypto trading and fully-automated systematic trading, we should talk.
About the Role
We are hiring software engineers across the Liquidity Platform’s engineering teams. You will design, build, and operate the systems that price, execute, monitor, and safeguard our liquidity-providing business 24/7. You will work closely with liquidity managers, product managers, and desk developers — developing strategies, services, and infrastructure using in-house toolkits — while growing capabilities in inventory and risk management, strategic problem solving, cross-functional collaboration, and effective communication.
These roles are open to Senior and Staff-level candidates; scope and title are calibrated based on experience and impact. Specializations span Delta One Systematic Trading, Cash OTC, Option Market Making, Trading Infra Service, Data Engineering and Risk & Analytics.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant, low-latency trading infrastructure and microservices that handle 24/7 crypto market operations.
- Build and maintain connectivity to centralized exchanges, DeFi venues, and counterparties using FIX 5.0+, WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST — handling the real-world complexities of external integrations and on-chain data.