Senior/Staff Software Engineer. Liquidity Platform, Options Market Making

OKB Technology Company Limited

Hong Kong

On-site

HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Competitive compensation

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Job summary

OKB Technology Company Limited seeks a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join the Liquidity Platform and Options Market Making team, designing, developing and operating automated systems across data, pricing, quoting, and risk controls.

You will collaborate with trading, quantitative, and product teams, contributing to end-to-end responsibilities from requirements analysis to production operation while advancing architectural evolution and system performance.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
At least two years of experience in backend engineering, real-time systems, infrastructure, or trading systems.
Proficiency in Java, Rust, or C++, with the ability to work in a multilingual codebase.
Strong CS fundamentals, including OS, network, multithreading, concurrent programming, and distributed systems.
Proficiency in using AI coding tools for requirements analysis, development, testing, and code review.
Strong analytical skills, business understanding, ownership, and communication in written English.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and operate automated options market making systems covering market data, pricing, quoting, order execution, hedging, positions, and risk controls.
Work with trading, quantitative, and product teams to translate requirements into reliable production systems.
Contribute to development of trading systems and improve performance, stability, and maintainability of critical paths.
Apply AI-native engineering tools to requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and code review while ensuring production safety of generated code.
Improve testing, monitoring, alerting, and recovery capabilities and participate in incident resolution and post-incident reviews.
Own the technical design and code review of core modules; lead cross-module projects and architectural evolution.

Skills

Java 17+

Rust

C++

Real-time systems

Distributed systems

Multithreading

AI coding tools

Linux

Networking I/O

Performance optimization

Code review

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Aeron

Linux tooling

CI/CD tooling

Git

Job description

Senior/Staff Software Engineer. Liquidity Platform, Options Market Making

The Liquidity Platform provides technology covering the full lifecycle of cryptocurrency trading, including venue connectivity, real-time market data processing, automated quoting and trading, order execution, position management, risk controls, and data analytics. The platform connects to centralized exchanges, decentralized venues, and event contract markets worldwide. It supports spot, derivatives, and event contract products and provides stable, efficient infrastructure for our liquidity business.

About the Liquidity Platform

About the Options Market Making Team

The Options Market Making team develops and operates automated options quoting and trading systems. Our responsibilities span market data integration, options pricing, volatility and Greeks calculations, automated quoting, order execution, position management, hedging, and risk controls. The team owns the complete trading lifecycle and continues to advance both the multilingual development of our trading systems and our AI-native engineering practices. In this role, you will contribute across the trading system, develop an understanding of its different business domains, and take end-to-end responsibility from requirements analysis and implementation through production operation.

What You’ll Be Doing

Design, develop, and operate automated options market making systems covering market data, pricing, quoting, order execution, hedging, positions, and risk controls.
Work closely with trading, quantitative, and product teams to translate business requirements into reliable, testable production systems.
Contribute to the development of trading systems and continuously improve the performance, stability, and maintainability of critical trading paths.
Follow an AI-native engineering approach by applying AI coding tools to requirements analysis, technical design, development, testing, and code review, while remaining accountable for the quality of the final delivery.
Improve testing, monitoring, alerting, and recovery capabilities, and participate in incident resolution and post-incident reviews.
Own the technical design and code review of core modules. Senior and Staff engineers will also lead cross-module projects and architectural evolution.

What We Look For In You

Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
At least two years of experience in backend engineering, real-time systems, infrastructure, or trading systems.
Proficiency in at least one of Java, Rust, or C++, with the ability to work effectively in a multilingual codebase.
Strong computer science fundamentals, including operating systems, network communication, multithreading, concurrent programming, and distributed systems.
Proficiency in using AI coding tools for requirements analysis, development, testing, and code review, with the ability to independently evaluate and validate AI-generated designs and code.
Strong analytical skills, business understanding, ownership, and communication skills, including the ability to read technical materials and communicate in written English.

Technical Requirements

Proficiency in developing production systems with Java 17+, Rust, or C++, with the ability to design, implement, and troubleshoot within a multilingual codebase.
Familiarity with Linux development and runtime environments, including the use of common tools for resource analysis, performance diagnostics, and troubleshooting.
Experience with multithreading, asynchronous processing, network I/O, and high-performance data structures, with an understanding of lock contention, memory allocation, caching, garbage collection, and their impact on latency.
Ability to use AI coding tools to support requirements analysis, development, testing, and code review, while independently validating the correctness and production safety of generated code.
Familiarity with TCP, UDP, WebSocket, HTTP, or proprietary exchange protocols, with experience developing real-time data or trading interfaces.
Ability to design and optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems and identify bottlenecks through profiling, benchmarking, and production metrics.
Familiarity with real-time messaging and inter-process communication. Experience with Aeron, shared memory, lock-free queues, or binary protocols is preferred.
Experience building logging, metrics, alerting, and automated recovery capabilities for continuously operating production systems.
Familiarity with build and dependency management for large multi-module projects, together with experience in unit testing, integration testing, and continuous integration.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in options market making, quantitative trading, exchange connectivity, market data, order management, quoting, hedging, or risk systems.
Understanding of order books, order lifecycles, and market microstructure.
Understanding of options pricing, volatility, Greeks, PnL, inventory risk, and dynamic hedging.
Experience developing low-latency trading systems, real-time market data systems, or high-performance network services.
Experience evolving multilingual systems or separating performance-sensitive components.
Experience with market data replay, strategy simulation, trade reconciliation, or production incident resolution.
Experience using Python for data analysis, backtesting, or production diagnostics.
Practical experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex in production projects.

Perks & Benefits