Quantitative Trading System Architect, Crypto Industry

About the job

This client is one of the largest blockchain development companies in the world building out household name applications across finance. They are looking for Quantitative Trading System Architect within the Crypto trading team. The Crypto Trading team’s mission is to design, build, and maintain services that power and accelerate our crypto products, platforms, and operations, with the goal of building the world’s best crypto trading platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize the company’s institutional trading matching engine, ensuring stable and efficient performance under high concurrency and load
• Design and implement high-performance, low-latency matching algorithms tailored to market dynamics and evolving business needs
• Optimize performance and architecture of key modules such as order matching, matching algorithms, and order book management
• Participate in architecture planning for trading systems to ensure high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and system performance
• Design efficient strategies for messaging queues, databases, and caching to support large-scale concurrent trading requests
• Lead continuous architectural optimization and system refactoring to improve fault tolerance, maintainability, and operational stability
• Handle high-concurrency transaction requests while maintaining fast order matching and system responsiveness
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and enhance performance through code optimization, concurrency control, and database tuning
• Design and implement load balancing and distributed processing strategies to ensure high throughput with low latency
• Understand market structure and trading rules to design efficient, compliant matching algorithms
• Continuously analyze and iterate algorithm performance to ensure fairness and matching efficiency
• Track financial market innovations and explore new trading models and optimization strategies to drive technical innovation
• Serve as a technical leader guiding team members through research and development efforts
• Lead design of technical solutions and solve key challenges through innovation
• Work closely with product, operations, and QA teams to ensure smooth development and timely delivery of the matching system
• Ensure trading system security by contributing to secure architecture design to defend against attacks and misuse
• Participate in disaster recovery design and simulation exercises to guarantee rapid system recovery and business continuity

Qualifications & Preferred Skills

If you believe you have the right skills, attitude and experience please click 'apply now' below and upload your resume. Alternatively, for a confidential chat, please contact Kevin Ng by applying directly to email kng@captarpartners.com or reach out at +852 3653 5244.