AscendEx is a well-recognized global cryptocurrency trading platform. Currently, we are looking for a mid/senior backend developer to join our global team and build out the high-performance, low latency, robust, and scalable core trading system.

Responsibilities:

- Review designs, document technical specifications, and provide time estimates for implementing features/fixes.

- Write high-performance, reusable, modular code along with automated tests.

- Maintain a close working relationship with a geographically distributed development team in an evolving agile environment.

- Follow common design patterns, architectural practices and development methodologies.

- Identify and resolve performance issues to optimize for speed.

Requirements

- 5-12 years of professional work experience in a software development organization.

- 7+ years of professional work experience with Scala, Java, or Go.

- Experience designing and coding large distributed systems with high throughput.

- Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced environment with iterative deadlines.

- A dedicated team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Able to read, write, and speak fluent English. Mandarin-speaking is a bonus.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or related major.

Senior Web3 Software Engineer

Location: Europe/US/Latam

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $170K - $195K

Our client is a pioneer in the blockchain sector, developing a high-performance operating system designed to redefine scalability and throughput for Ethereum. By combining parallel transaction execution with advanced state minimization, our client’s platform overcomes traditional protocol limitations to provide a groundbreaking environment for decentralized development.

Since its initial launch in 2019, the organization has remained dedicated to enhancing Ethereum's ecosystem through technical innovation, including the creation of a bespoke virtual machine and a specialized programming language. The team is a globally dispersed group of innovators committed to shaping the future of blockchain technology through secure, decentralized, and high-throughput solutions.

Our client is seeking a Senior Web3 Software Engineer to lead the development of high-performance decentralized applications (dapps). This individual will own major product surfaces end-to-end—from frontend interfaces to on-chain integrations—collaborating across product, design, and smart contract teams to deliver secure and intuitive experiences for traders and users.

Key Responsibilities

Front End Engineer (Product Engineer)

Location: New York, NY

On-Site | Full-time

Compensation: $200K/yr - $325K/yr

Our client is a high-growth fintech firm building the next generation of trading and portfolio management technology. Founded by industry veterans from top-tier quant shops, the organization has secured over $100M in funding to rethink how financial institutions manage trillions in assets. The core product suite handles everything from high-throughput market data to complex portfolio optimization. Our client is looking for a driven Engineer to help build the performant, data-rich interfaces that power these mission-critical workflows.

You will own the user experience for platforms that handle massive data scale and complex financial operations. This isn't just about building "dashboards"—it's about engineering intuitive interfaces for real-time position tracking, smart order routing, and high-cardinality optimization.

Key Responsibilities

Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Location: San Francisco, New York, or Remote (US)

On-site/Remote| Full-time

Compensation: $225K – $300K 

Our client is a high-growth, venture-backed organization (YC W24) that has raised over $35M to pioneer the next generation of autonomous digital workers. Unlike traditional chatbots or copilots, our client builds fully autonomous "AI employees" that research leads, manage complex outbound sequences, handle deliverability infrastructure, and self-optimize through behavioral patterns.

Currently at $8M+ ARR and scaling rapidly, the organization is deep in the development of its next-generation platform—a step change in the capabilities of AI agents. The backend is the core of this transformation, processing millions of signals to facilitate autonomous decision-making. Our client is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve in a foundational role, owning major segments of the platform infrastructure and driving high-throughput AI orchestration. The engineering culture is flat, high-velocity, and results-oriented. There is no red tape; engineers are expected to own outcomes end-to-end, from architecture and design to deployment and monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

Staff Full Stack Engineer

Location: New York

On- site | Full-time

Compensation: Competitive

Our client is a premier development organization responsible for building and operating a high-stakes technology stack that powers one of the largest and most active token launchpads in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The systems involved are engineered for low latency and high throughput, operating under constant, significant load where precision and system reliability are critical.

The organization is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to play a vital role in scaling cutting-edge platforms at the intersection of cryptocurrency and social finance. This individual will work across the entire technical stack to deliver high-performance, user-centric applications. The environment is characterized by an intense pace, high expectations, and immediate real-world impact. This role is ideal for a high-agency engineer who thrives on ownership and is motivated by the challenge of building products used by massive, global audiences.

Key Responsibilities

Senior Staff Backend Engineer

Location: Manhattan, New York

Onsite | Full-time

We are hiring on behalf of our client who is the development powerhouse behind one of the largest and most high-traffic platforms in the digital asset space. Currently processing ~$1B in daily volume, their technology stack handles low-latency, high-throughput, and constant load at a scale few companies ever reach.

The Role

In this role, you will act as a technical anchor, overseeing the integrity and evolution of their core backend systems. You will balance high-level architectural governance with deep-tier execution, driving technical excellence from the front. Your primary focus will be the proactive mitigation of scaling risks and the design of durable, fault-tolerant systems capable of sustaining high-throughput workloads.

What You’ll Do:

Blockchain Indexing Specialist

Location: Can do at least 4 hours overlap between 10am-6pm Brazilian time - Cannot hire in Germany or France

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: Competitive

Our client operates a premier real-time blockchain analytics platform utilized by over 5 million crypto traders every month. As a lean, high-performance team of ten, the organization remains at the absolute core of the rapidly expanding decentralized finance (DeFi) industry.

The organization is seeking a Blockchain Engineer to join the core engineering team. This individual will manage and evolve the indexing layer as the platform scales across hundreds of chains and billions of transactions. The mission is to architect and maintain high-performance indexers that ensure the platform remains the fastest and most reliable data provider in the ecosystem. This role is designed for a specialist who thrives in high-throughput environments and possesses a deep technical understanding of blockchain data structures.

Key Responsibilities

Software Engineer (Java Generalist)

Location: US - Open to Europe if happy to overlap with EST

Compensation: $160K - $200K

Our firm has been retained by a high-growth, mission-driven technology company to find a world-class Principal Java Systems Engineer. This is not a role for "glue" engineers who connect off-the-shelf components; this is for the engineer who sees performance ceilings as a personal challenge and prefers squeezing 30% more throughput out of clean Java over renting 30% more cloud compute.

Our client is building a high-performance, publicly visible immutable ledger. In an industry where people "move fast and break things," this team operates like NASA: moving fast while ensuring correctness, performance, and efficiency are 100% right the first time. You will join an elite team where you aren't a cog in the machine—you are the architect building it.

Key Responsibilities:

Quant / Trading Engineer

Location: US remote preferred, open to Europe for strong candidates

Compensation: Competitive

We are building a foundational layer for the next generation of financial markets: perpetual markets based on onchain economic activity. Instead of merely pricing assets or narratives, our platform allows traders and autonomous agents to take directional exposure to the growth or decay of applications, protocols, and infrastructure within the onchain economy.

We deploy directly into the Hyperliquid ecosystem, optimizing discovery and execution through our dedicated application. As a member of our early-stage team, you will work at the intersection of quantitative finance, crypto market structure, and high-performance onchain data systems.

Your mission is to build the signal layer and APIs that make autonomous trading agents materially more effective. You won’t just be moving data; you’ll be converting raw market behavior into high-fidelity, agent-readable signals.

Engineering Manager (Incubations)

Location: New York (Office)

Comepensation: Competitive

We are an industry-leading R&D lab building high-performance, open-source technology for the first parallelized EVM Layer 1 blockchain. Our mission is to scale decentralized infrastructure to handle Web2-level volume, onboarding the next billion users into a vibrant ecosystem of digital assets.

As the Engineering Manager for Incubations, you will lead a specialized team at the forefront of blockchain innovation. You won't just be managing; you will be collaborating directly with ecosystem partners to develop cutting-edge dApps across diverse domains—including Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Gaming, DePin, and AI. This is a "zero-to-one" leadership role designed for someone who thrives in fast-paced, community-first environments and wants to push the absolute boundaries of decentralized technology.

What you’ll do: