Senior AI Full-Stack / Applications Engineer

OKX; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 321,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

L&D programs

Wellness allowance

Meal allowances

Comprehensive healthcare

Team events

Job summary

OKX is seeking an experienced Senior AI Full-Stack / Applications Engineer in San Jose to own real-time dashboards, CAAT-like surfaces, and AI-powered apps used by auditors and executives. You will bridge data, cloud infrastructure, and UX, delivering production-grade tools, integrating JIRA and Google Workspace, and driving adoption across the internal audit function.

You will work across data, backend, and frontend layers, shaping architecture, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and maintaining production-grade full-stack web apps.
• Strong fundamentals: data structures/algorithms, Python, and SQL/data modeling.
• End-to-end ownership from data layer to UI in cloud environments.
• Expertise in React/Next.js with real-time visualization.
• Experience embedding agentic AI with governance and audits.
• Secure design for enterprise audit environments and compliance.
• Experience integrating JIRA and Google Workspace.

Responsibilities

• Deliver production-grade, end-to-end AI-enabled dashboards and apps.
• Own tech stack including front-end, back-end, and cloud services.
• Collaborate with auditors to drive adoption and demonstrate value.
• Prototype and defend new tooling with live stakeholder reviews.
• Ensure data protection and audit trails with automated tests.
• Integrate third-party systems and APIs for workflow automation.

Skills

Full-stack development

Python

SQL / Data modeling

Real-time visualization

Cloud fluency (AWS/GCP)

React / Next.js / TypeScript

Agentic AI concepts

Tools

AWS

GCP

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Python

SQL

JIRA

Google Workspace

Job description

Senior AI Full-Stack / Applications Engineer

San Jose, California, United States

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. OKX is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world, through our leading products OKX, OKX Wallet, OKLink and more.

About the Opportunity

OKX’s Internal Audit function has an early-stage, working AI-native capability: live dashboards, agentic workflows, and AI-powered apps that let a very small team punch far above its weight. Your job is not to rebuild it at today’s maturity. Your job is to take it to a regulator-grade production standard and well beyond, and to drive AI Enablement across the department. You own the products people touch: the real-time dashboards that drive Chief Audit Executive and board reporting, the computer-assisted audit technique (CAAT) and continuous-monitoring surfaces auditors work from, and the agentic, AI-powered apps that make the team faster, and you get auditors to adopt them. You build on the platform’s runtime and harness rather than reinventing them. We hire on demonstrated building, not on claims or credentials. We expect you to be more capable than the hiring manager in your domain: you will co‑own and challenge the tooling strategy, not just implement it. This is a two-person engineering team: you deploy, debug, and hotfix your counterpart’s stack when needed.

What You’ll Be Doing

Cloud on AWS or GCP. Claude as the starting point in a deliberately multi-model architecture: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, using the right model for each job, including plugins you build. Google Workspace for reporting and evidence. JIRA for the audit team’s workflow. Lark for team communications and alert bots. Today’s executive product ships largely as API-rendered Google Docs/Slides and branded PDF; you evolve that toward real applications without dropping the document standard. React / Next.js front-end, with testing and observability throughout. Treat this stack as the starting point, not a constraint: you build production-grade products end to end on what exists today, and you are expected to propose, prove, and adopt better tools as demand and capabilities evolve.

In your first year

• A live, real-time Chief Audit Executive and board dashboard is in use for actual reporting.
• CAAT and continuous-monitoring surfaces are used by auditors in multiple real audits, with full-population testing live in at least two audit domains.
• Agentic, human-in-the-loop applications are part of the team's standard workflow: several in production, adoption measured and growing, and at least two demonstrably cutting cycle times, one in audit reporting and one in a board-cycle deliverable.
• The hiring manager is out of the delivery loop for dashboards, reports, and rendering pipelines: each has a runbook and an owner who is not him.

How we assess demonstrated building

We assess demonstrated building in ways that respect your time and your confidentiality obligations to current and former employers: a portfolio deep‑dive (walk us through applications you built and kept running, at the level of detail your obligations allow; we want architecture, decisions, and trade‑offs, never proprietary code, data, or documents), a short, time‑capped build exercise on a synthetic dataset unrelated to OKX’s business (a live dashboard with drill‑through, used for assessment only, never put to use by OKX, and the work remains yours) that you defend live, walking us through your design decisions and extending it on the spot, a working session on how you drove adoption with non‑technical users, and references focused on whether you built and maintained applications in production.

Trust and compliance

This role handles highly sensitive audit data at a global crypto exchange. Expect background checks, confidentiality obligations, and personal‑trading and material‑non‑public‑information restrictions consistent with OKX policy.

What We Look For In You

• 6+ years building and maintaining full-stack web applications in production, owning them over time.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: data structures and algorithms, fluent Python (or a comparable backend language), and strong SQL and data modeling. True full‑stack: from the data layer and SQL through resilient APIs to the UI, wired into the cloud (AWS or GCP).
• Strong front‑end (React / Next.js and TypeScript, with real design and UX sense) and proven real‑time / streaming data visualization with drill‑through to underlying evidence.
• Agentic AI features with responsible‑AI practice: multi‑step workflows, human‑in‑the‑loop review, output validation, red‑teaming, and honest handling of hallucination and error.
• Data protection at the app layer and audit‑trail thinking (access controls, evidence, defensible handling), backed by automated testing and documentation. You build applications that could withstand external audit, by design. You ship inside locked‑down enterprise environments (TLS‑intercepting proxies, endpoint detection and response tooling, restricted installs, security guardrails) without treating security as someone else’s problem.
• Experience integrating third‑party systems (JIRA, Google Workspace, SaaS APIs) and partnering with non‑technical users to drive adoption.

Nice to Haves

• Model tooling across the Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google ecosystems; Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and plugin development; agent‑based apps.
• Business‑intelligence (BI) and analytics tooling and executive or board reporting, including continuous‑monitoring dashboards.
• Crypto and blockchain literacy; regulated financial‑services, fintech, or crypto experience.
• Document and presentation rendering pipelines: programmatic Google Docs/Slides/Sheets APIs or OOXML generation to an executive brand standard. Much of audit's product ships as board‑grade documents, and this is trainable on the job.

Benefits

• 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

The salary range for this position is $178,000 - $321,000

The salary offered depends on a variety of factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. In addition to the salary, a performance bonus and long-term incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.

OKX is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, genetic information, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, lawful alien status, national origin, age, marital status, and non‑job related physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.