Senior Backend Engineer (Blockchain & Trading Infra)
Summary
Senior Backend Engineer at Star Global in Hong Kong building low-latency, high-throughput core trading and blockchain financial infrastructure — order routing, fund movement, wallet integrations, clearing, settlement, and disaster recovery. Stack centers on Go (deep Java/Rust/C++ engineers open to switching are welcome), with custody tech like MPC and HD wallets.
Salary: $70,000 – $100,000 per month
About the role
We are seeking a highly skilled and system-minded Senior Backend Engineer to join our high-frequency core engineering team. In this role, you will be architecting resilient, low-latency backends for central trading platform infrastructure and chain-level financial channels. If you have an obsession for execution precision, data consistency, and modern AI-augmented workflows, this role offers an unprecedented opportunity to build mission-critical financial systems.
What you'll do
Design, optimize, and maintain high-throughput trading components, including order routing, fund movement, risk controls, clearing, and settlemet.
Build reliable infrastructure for fund scanning, automated withdrawals and payouts, wallet integrations. and reconciliation.
Develop failure recovery and disaster recovery mechanisms that support transactional consistency, fast state recovery, and fault isolation.
Own end-to-end technical designs, guide engineering decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and establish system benchmarks.
Identify performance bottlenecks and improve latency, throughput, and resource efficiency across critical backend paths.
Collaborate with engineers across related components to ensure services and financial workflows work together reliably.
What we're looking for
5 years of backend engineering experiencen trading, fintech or related industries.
Hands-on experience with high-concurrency systems, distributed locks, state machines, and production data consistency.
The ability to explain architecture choices, trade-offs, and lessons from system post-mortems.
Experienced in designing financial systems such as trading engines, payment gateways, general ledgers, or wallet custody.
Familiarity with custody solutions, MPC, HD wallets, or smart contract interactions.
Strong computer science fundamentals and the ability to quickly learn.
Engineers with deep Java, Rust or C++ experience who are willing to transition to Go are encouraged.