You will have the opportunity to join a team responsible for designing the industry's leading Crypto trading system, including Spot, Margin, Perpetuals, Futures, Options, and various risk control models such as simple account, single-currency margin, multi-currency margin, and portfolio margin.
This system supports daily trading volumes of over ten billion USD for both retail and institutional clients.
- The plumbing of the exchange. Order management, matching, margin, risk engine, lending/borrowing — across both spot and derivatives. When you ship, millions of trades route through your work the same day.
- Infrastructure that holds up where others can't operate. You'll work directly with Legal, Compliance, and local market teams — not to check boxes, but to design systems that clear the highest regulatory bar in finance. That bar is our moat.
- Outlearning the competition. Talk to traders, take apart competing systems, and decide where we lead vs. fast-follow — across crypto and TradFi.
- The instruments that show us the market first. Build the data and monitoring layer that gives us situational awareness of our own stack and the broader industry. If something's drifting, breaking, or shifting — you know before anyone else.
- The 3–12 month direction. Decide what we build next, and when, based on product lifecycle, competitive landscape, and what our capacity actually is — not what makes the deck look good.
- Shipping through. From spec to launch, you're the person who gets it out the door — pulling engineering, design, ops, and marketing into alignment without becoming the bottleneck.
- The AI harness and agent architecture for your domain. Design and ship multi-step agent workflows — tool use, retrieval, evaluation, human-in-the-loop checkpoints — that power how Core Trading operates. Spec agents the way you spec products.
- Bachelor's degree or above in mathematics, physics or computer science major.
- 5+ years experience in building sophisticated backend systems in either crypto or Traditional Finance industry.
- AI native skillset that allow you to ship at 10x because you automate the work flow first.
- Possess rigorous logical thinking, excellent teamwork, communication skills and be able to coordinate resources to solve problems and achieve goals between different departments.
- You possess a strong interest in trading, blockchain and the financial industry.
- You are proactive, enthusiastic and sensitive to customers' feedback from a product lens.
- Fluent in English and Mandarin (to communicate with Mandarin speaking clients / cross-teams).
- Trading experience in sophisticated institutions.
- Excel in quantitative research with various mathematics tools.
- Competitive total compensation package
- L&D programs and education subsidy for employees' growth and development
- Various team building programs and company events
- Wellness and meal allowances
- Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
- More that we love to tell you along the process!
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or above in mathematics, physics or computer science major.
- 5+ years experience building sophisticated backend systems in crypto or Traditional Finance.
- AI-native skillset to design automation and agent-driven workflows.
- Rigorous logical thinking, strong teamwork and communication, cross-department coordination.
- Strong interest in trading, blockchain and the financial industry.
- Proactive, customer-focused product mindset sensitive to user feedback.
- Fluent in English and Mandarin.
- Trading experience in sophisticated institutions.
- Strong quantitative research skills with mathematical tools.
OKX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive or above market, especially in engineering, product, and legal roles across major hubs. This positioning is consistently cited as a major attraction for candidates.
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Healthcare Strength — Role descriptions indicate comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage, with employer-paid premiums in some cases. Health coverage is highlighted alongside core benefits like PTO and parental leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Allowances for education and fitness, meal perks and snacks, team-building budgets, and structured learning programs are described across locations. These extras enhance the total rewards package beyond base pay.
OKX Insights
What We Do
Founded in 2017, OKX is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency spot and derivatives exchanges. OKX innovatively adopted blockchain technology to reshape the financial ecosystem by offering some of the most diverse and sophisticated products, solutions, and trading tools on the market. Trusted by more than 20 million users in over 180 regions globally, OKX strives to provide an engaging platform that empowers every individual to explore the world of crypto. In addition to its world-class DeFi exchange, OKX serves its users with OKX Insights, a research arm that is at the cutting edge of the latest trends in the cryptocurrency industry. With its extensive range of crypto products and services, and unwavering commitment to innovation, OKX’s vision is a world of financial access backed by blockchain and the power of decentralized finance.
