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Taiwan

  • Own the core financial engine including order routing, execution lifecycles, and internal ledgers.
  • Build resilient, high-throughput infrastructure for scaling from early users to hundreds of thousands of investors.
  • Take end-to-end operational ownership including monitoring, incident response, and on-call rotations.

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$175,000–$200,000/yr
North America Unlimited PTO

  • Work on features to increase speed and functionality of trading infrastructure, including new algorithms and exchange integrations.
  • Play an active role in executing system architecture and roadmap, collaborating with Product Management.
  • Grow to become an expert in entire trading systems and use deductive reasoning to solve complex problems.

sFOX is a full-service prime dealer that unites liquidity from over 30 exchanges and OTC desks. Founded in 2014, the company is backed by prominent investors and has a rapidly growing team.

Vietnam

  • Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, FX, KYC and risk flows.
  • Design reliable systems that can support real customer transactions, operational workflows and future financial products.
  • Integrate with internal systems, financial partners, payment providers, AI services and third-party platforms.

BJAK is a mobile-first insurance platform enabling insurance accessible online, and now expanding to spending, saving, investing, and more. Founded in 2019, the company has a global team of over 20 nationalities and seeks talented, driven individuals who work for passion.

US 3w PTO 20w maternity 20w paternity

  • Design and build core financial systems including trading, ledger, and billing.
  • Develop systems for transaction processing, reconciliation, and portfolio state management.
  • Build and scale real-time and batch data pipelines.

Arta leverages AI and digital tools to make financial products accessible to a broader global audience. The company values trust, teamwork, and adaptability.

Asia

  • Set the product direction and roadmap for margin financing & securities lending and clearing & settlement systems.
  • Own the architecture design of clearing and settlement systems, including trade clearing, position and balance settlement, multilateral netting, fee and interest settlement, and reconciliation.
  • Improve core margin systems including collateral valuation, cross/isolated margin logic, interest accrual, borrow/lend flows, and liquidation handling.

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. They are trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries, with a flat structure and diverse workforce.

Global

  • Build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca's global payments and treasury platform.
  • Operate in an industry where money movement is critical, using modern, event-driven, and highly scalable architectures.
  • Collaborate with a distributed team to design and implement solutions with autonomy, focusing on quality and resilience.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. Our global team of 380+ members values curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

US

  • Own the architecture of the Nexus Exchange end-to-end while staying hands-on in production code.
  • Lead the engineering org, managing timelines, roadmaps, and resourcing across senior engineers and pods.
  • Drive product and customer outcomes with high-frequency iteration and a business-first mindset.

Nexus is a blockchain built to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system, unifying infrastructure across chains. Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, the cross-continental team of engineers and cryptographers is backed by investors like Pantera and Lightspeed.

Indonesia

  • Build backend services, APIs and workflows for the finance super app.
  • Support products across insurance, payments, wallet, savings, investing, travel and financial services.
  • Design reliable systems for user accounts, transactions, partner integrations, reconciliation, notifications and operations.

BJAK is a mobile-first insurance platform in Southeast Asia, now expanding into spending, saving, investing, and more. With over 20 nationalities working globally, they seek talented and driven people who love building next-generation products.

Global

  • Design, build, and operate feed services that serve market data across multiple markets with low latency and high reliability.
  • Keep the feed available and correct when things break, owning SLOs and overall health of your services.
  • Identify technical debt and reliability risks, improve systems, and support engineers through code reviews.

Thndr is on a mission to make investing simple and accessible for everyone across the Middle East and North Africa. Since launching in 2019 and going through Y Combinator, Thndr has grown into Egypt's number one investing app with millions of users, backed by Tiger Global, Prosus Ventures, and others.

UK US Singapore

  • Monitor live trading systems, triage alerts, and lead incident response across multiple regions and asset classes
  • Deliver production configuration changes, including FIX session setup, client onboarding, and post-release verification
  • Build automation, runbooks, and AI-assisted tooling to reduce toil and scale operational knowledge across a distributed team

Reactive Markets is the 2026 OTC Trading Platform of the Year. Their network handles over $50 billion in daily trading volumes across FX, Equities, and Cryptocurrency, connecting 40+ of the world's leading liquidity providers, and their engineering team is small, senior, and deeply invested in building cutting-edge, reliable, high-performance systems.

Hong Kong Taiwan Taipei UAE

  • Drive growth and competitiveness of the exchange's trading business through strategic initiatives and market development.
  • Develop and execute liquidity strategies to enhance market quality, trading efficiency, and user experience.
  • Monitor market trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging opportunities to support product and business expansion.

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. We are trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries and offer a range of products from trading and finance to education and Web3 features.

$140,000–$200,000/yr
USA

  • Design, develop, and operate ledger and payments services for accurate crypto and fiat money movement.
  • Build scalable APIs and data models to support new transaction types while ensuring correctness and auditability.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams and mentor teammates to deliver production-grade code.

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by the Winklevoss twins, offering secure crypto products in over 70 countries. The publicly traded company emphasizes building diverse teams and fostering an open, fair, and secure cryptoeconomy.

US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Lead and develop engineers across multiple backend and platform teams, including coaching, performance feedback, hiring, and day-to-day prioritization
  • Turn ambiguous work into a clear execution plan and keep that plan aligned with product, engineering, and business stakeholders
  • Partner closely with engineers on architecture and technical tradeoffs across customer-facing products and the shared platform services that support them

Synctera powers the future of FinTech by providing an end-to-end Banking as a Service platform for companies to build and scale fintech apps and embedded banking products. They are a fast-growing company with a collaborative culture, seeking sharp individuals to build the FinTech ecosystem.