Senior Software Engineer — Trade & Blockchain

Grvt; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Grvt is seeking a software engineer to design, implement, test, and operate production systems within a complex trading environment. You will own the correctness, reliability, and operability of the features you build, and actively surface ambiguity in requirements, product logic, and system behavior.

You will write clear, maintainable code with a bias toward simplicity and correctness. You will participate in incident response and follow through with durable fixes and improvements,

Qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals and sound judgment in complex systems.
• Bias toward correctness, reliability, and production ownership.
• Comfort reasoning about non-trivial business logic, stateful systems, and edge cases.
• Consistent self-directed productivity in ambiguous or loosely scoped work.
• Clear, collaborative communication and a strong team-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate production systems in a complex trading environment.
• Own the correctness, reliability, and operability of the features you build.
• Actively surface and resolve ambiguity in requirements, product logic, and system behavior.
• Write clear, maintainable code with a strong bias toward simplicity and correctness.
• Participate in incident response and follow through with durable fixes and improvements.
• Collaborate closely with peers through code reviews, design discussions, and shared problem-solving.

Skills

Engineering fundamentals

Production ownership

Business logic reasoning

Clear communication

Team collaboration

Tools

Go (Golang)

Job description

• Design, implement, test, and operate production systems in a complex trading environment.
• Own the correctness, reliability, and operability of the features you build.
• Actively surface and resolve ambiguity in requirements, product logic, and system behavior.
• Write clear, maintainable code with a strong bias toward simplicity and correctness.
• Participate in incident response and follow through with durable fixes and improvements.
• Collaborate closely with peers through code reviews, design discussions, and shared problem-solving.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, test, and operate production systems in a complex trading environment.
• Own the correctness, reliability, and operability of the features you build.
• Actively surface and resolve ambiguity in requirements, product logic, and system behavior.
• Write clear, maintainable code with a strong bias toward simplicity and correctness.
• Participate in incident response and follow through with durable fixes and improvements.
• Collaborate closely with peers through code reviews, design discussions, and shared problem-solving.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong engineering fundamentals and sound judgment in complex systems.
• A demonstrated bias toward correctness, reliability, and production ownership.
• Comfort reasoning about non-trivial business logic, stateful systems, and edge cases.
• Consistent self-directed productivity in ambiguous or loosely scoped work.
• Clear, collaborative communication and a strong team-oriented mindset.

Nice to Have

• Experience with trading systems, exchanges, or other high-stakes domains.
• Production experience with Go (Golang) or performance-sensitive backend systems.
• Prior ownership of services in production, including on-call or incident response.

This Role Is Not a Fit If

• You prefer narrowly scoped tasks with fully specified requirements.
• You avoid production ownership or incident responsibility.
• You optimize primarily for speed or novelty over correctness and clarity.
• You are uncomfortable working in systems with significant complexity and real-world consequences.