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Mobile Networking Engineer

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🚀 About Flipster
Flipster() is a high-performance crypto perpetuals trading platform on a mission to create the most efficient, frictionless, and high-performance trading experience.
Engineered by traders and optimized for trading, Flipster combines zero spreads, instant execution, and capital efficiency to deliver a platform where performance is the product.
Operating globally and serving users in nearly 200 countries, Flipster is built for crypto traders who demand the ultimate perpetual trading experience — from active retail users to degens to seasoned pros — while maintaining the highest standards of compliance and security.

About this role

We're hiring a mobile networking specialist based in mainland China to own the SDK-level connectivity layer for our iOS and Android apps in the region. This is an engineering role focused on transport-layer logic, connection management, and client-side resilience strategies for users in challenging network environments.

Required experience

  • 4+ years of mobile SDK development on iOS or Android (both preferred) with significant time spent on the networking layer
  • Direct hands-on experience shipping apps to mainland China users with measurable reliability improvements you can describe
  • Strong understanding of TLS, TCP behavior, and modern transport protocols (HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC, WebSocket)
  • Comfortable with Wireshark, tcpdump, Charles, and platform-specific network debugging tools
  • Based in mainland China and able to test directly against real regional network conditions
  • Preferred

  • Experience at fintech, exchange, streaming, or gaming companies with mainland China users
  • Familiarity with native networking stacks (NSURLSession, OkHttp, Cronet) and how to customize them
  • Background in protocol design or transport-layer optimization
  • Hiring process

  • CV/Resume submission
  • 1st round interview
  • 2nd round interview
    • What you'll have access to

      A real, hard, well-resourced problem. A team that respects deep network expertise. Autonomy on architecture and protocol decisions. Direct impact on user experience for our entire mainland China user base.

    What this application asks

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    Resume/CV, Full name, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, GitHub URL, Portfolio URL, Other website

    • Besides English, what other languages are you proficient in speaking
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    • How well do you speak and write in Chinese? choose one

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