(Principal) Backend Development Engineer New Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Bybit Limited; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Study Growth Fund

Internal Events

Global Collaboration

Career Advancement

Internal Mobility

Job summary

Bybit Limited in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and implement solutions for user incentives, retention, and business automation, guided by AI tools and agent workflows. You will own requirements analysis, design, development, testing, production rollout, and monitoring for revenue and fund-related modules, ensuring accuracy, auditing, and secure data access.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted engineering, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field with strong backend experience.
• Experience with Go or Java and backend performance optimization.
• Proven ability to design distributed systems and core modules.
• Hands-on with concurrency, idempotency, timeouts, and recovery.
• Proficiency in RPC, caches, queues, and databases; data security minded.
• AI-assisted engineering and real-world AI/LLM deployments are required.
• Ability to explain trade-offs, ownership, and validation of outcomes.
• Experience with funds-related systems, monetary precision, and reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions for user incentives, retention, and automation.
• Drive requirements analysis, technical design, development, testing, and rollout.
• Develop and maintain AI-powered features and agent workflows.
• Integrate AI models/tools with internal systems for knowledge retrieval and troubleshooting.
• Ensure deterministic monetary calculations, auditability, and secure access controls.
• Promote observability, testing, and production readiness across modules.

Skills

Backend development

Go or Java

Concurr ency model

Distributed systems

AI-assisted engineering

AI/LLM capabilities

Monetary precision

Data security

Observability

Permissions boundaries

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

RPC frameworks

Caches

Message queues

Relational databases

Job description

About Us

Established in 2018, Bybit is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital financial platforms, serving over 80 million users across more than 200 countries and regions. Powered by world-class technology and a user-first mindset, Bybit delivers a seamless ecosystem across trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3 — connecting users to the future of digital finance.

Our core values define how we build. We listen, care and improve to create products and experiences that put users first. Backed by a global team of ambitious builders, problem-solvers, and innovators, we foster a high-performance and fast-moving environment where talent is empowered to drive real impact at the global scale. Supported by 24/7 multilingual customer service and a strong commitment to innovation, we are shaping the future of finance through technology, collaboration, and bold execution.

Today, Bybit is recognized as one of the most trusted and transparent platforms in the digital asset industry, continuing to expand its global presence while building the infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.

Responsibilities

Design and implement solutions for user incentives, experience improvements, and business automation in support of retention goals. Independently drive requirements analysis, technical design, development, testing, production rollout, ongoing operation, and post-launch evaluation for your modules. Develop and maintain user incentive and financial benefit modules. Strengthen rule execution, monetary calculations, disbursement, state transitions, idempotency, consistency, failure compensation, reconciliation, and auditing to ensure accuracy and traceability. Contribute to the engineering and productionization of AI applications and AI-powered user experiences, continuously improving output quality, responsiveness, system stability, and operating costs. Bring AI into real-world use cases by designing, developing, and iterating on AI Agents and agentic workflows. Integrate models, tools, and internal systems to support knowledge retrieval, troubleshooting, operational assistance, and business automation. Establish evaluation, execution observability, and safety controls for AI workflows. Improve context and state management, failure recovery, budget controls, and human intervention mechanisms. Enforce data access permissions, sensitive information protection, and boundaries on fund-related operations. Ensure that critical monetary calculations and writes are governed by deterministic rules and authorized execution paths. Help build team-wide AI-assisted engineering workflows. Develop reusable Skills, tools, context conventions, and validation mechanisms to enable effective AI use in requirements analysis, development, testing, code review, and troubleshooting, improving delivery efficiency while maintaining engineering quality.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field, with at least four years of backend development experience. Either Go or Java is acceptable.


• Strong programming fundamentals, including knowledge of the concurrency model, memory management, and performance optimization of at least one mainstream backend language.


• Ability to independently troubleshoot complex issues.


• Experience developing distributed systems and contributing to the design of core business modules or systems.


• Hands-on experience handling concurrency conflicts, idempotency, duplicate message consumption, cross-service consistency, timeouts, and failure recovery.


• Proficiency with common backend technologies, including RPC frameworks, caches, message queues, and relational databases, with an understanding of their appropriate use cases and reliability limitations.


• AI-assisted engineering capability — a core requirement: Proficiency in using AI coding tools for requirements decomposition, system analysis, coding, testing, and code review.


• Ability to validate outputs and maintain engineering quality rather than relying solely on generated code.


• AI application engineering capability — a core requirement: Hands-on experience developing and deploying AI/LLM capabilities in real-world scenarios.


• Ability to clearly explain the problem definition, personal contribution, technical trade-offs, and outcome validation. Experience must extend beyond basic tool usage or demonstration-only projects.


• Fund-related business experience — a mandatory requirement: Hands-on development experience with systems involving funds or monetary value, such as commission rebates, settlement, reconciliation, payments, accounting ledgers, vouchers, promotional credits, or subsidies.


• Experience addressing monetary precision, duplicate disbursements, failure compensation, or financial reconciliation, with the ability to explain the stages you owned and the mechanisms used to ensure correctness.


• Proactivity, business understanding, and cross-functional collaboration skills.


• Ability to translate business goals into technical problems and acceptance criteria.


• Commitment to testing, code review, observability, permission boundaries, and data security, with ownership of delivery and production outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• AI Agent / agentic workflow development experience — a key priority: Hands-on experience designing, developing, and continuously iterating on Agent workflows involving tool calling, workflow orchestration, context and memory management, state persistence, failure recovery, or human intervention. Projects may include business products, internal tools, or actively used and maintained personal projects.


• Experience evaluating Agent performance and improving reliability.


• Ability to identify issues through evaluation datasets, failure cases, execution traces, or business metrics, and validate the impact of improvements.


• Experience building team-wide AI-assisted engineering workflows, such as custom Skills, Rules, context conventions, automated testing, or AI code review pipelines that have been adopted by the team.


• Experience independently owning complex business modules or driving cross-system projects, including proposing solutions, coordinating dependencies, and delivering outcomes.


• Familiarity with complex rule systems, microservices, and asynchronous task orchestration.


• Ability to determine when to use traditional workflows versus Agents based on cost, determinism, and error risk.

Additional Advantages

• Experience developing retention, user incentive, lifecycle engagement, or growth platforms, including collaboration with Product and Operations to evaluate outcomes using business data and experiments.


• Practical experience with RAG, vector retrieval, knowledge bases, MCP, AI translation, search, or Agent orchestration frameworks, with the ability to explain technology choices and their limitations.


• Engineering experience at a cryptocurrency exchange or fintech company, or actively maintained and used personal projects and open-source contributions.

Why Join Us

At Bybit, we are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment.

• Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning.


• Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.


• Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world.


• Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company.


• Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.