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 Backend Engineer

Location: US or Europe (Must have solid overlap with EST)

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $150K - $200K

Our client is an industry-leading DeFi organization building the next generation of trading infrastructure. Operating as the largest builder-code product on a major decentralized exchange protocol, the company has processed over $65B in cumulative trading volume and generated eight-figure revenue over the past year. With a user base exceeding 400,000 registered traders, the platform is at the forefront of democratizing access to global financial markets across crypto, equities, and commodities.

The organization operates as a lean, highly technical team of individual contributors who prioritize autonomy, ownership, and rapid execution. This environment is designed for a Senior Backend Engineer who thrives in 0-to-1 environments and is capable of building ambitious systems from the ground up. This role is central to scaling trading interfaces that manage billions of dollars in daily volume while maintaining high-speed, intuitive user experiences.

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:

Staff Mobile Engineer (React Native)

Location: Fully remote in Europe or India

Compensation: $60K - $70K

We are a fast-scaling financial technology startup operating at the intersection of Prediction Markets, AI, and Blockchain.

Our platform is currently processing $200M in annualized volume and experiencing explosive growth of 100% week-over-week. We are backed by elite institutional investors, including a $500M AUM digital asset fund and a premier AI/Crypto accelerator with a sub-1% acceptance rate. We are looking for a world-class Staff Mobile Engineer to own our iOS experience and build a high-stakes trading environment where performance is the primary product feature.

As a Staff Mobile Engineer, you will be the architectural lead and primary owner of our iOS trading experience. This is a product-critical role where your code sits directly between our users and live, real-money markets. You will work in a high-bandwidth environment alongside the CEO, COO, and founding engineering team to ship a mobile experience that rivals the best in TradFi.

Key Responsibilities:

Founding Engineer (Trading Infrastructure)

Location: New York, London (Office)

Compensation: Competitive

We are building the next generation of global trading infrastructure. Designed for sub-millisecond execution and institutional depth, our platform powers spot, perpetuals, and prediction markets on a unified liquidity engine. Built by a team of Wall Street veterans and crypto-native engineers, we are moving beyond the limitations of current exchanges to create a high-performance network that spans across asset classes with zero compromise.

As a Founding Engineer, you will be a core architect of our trading ecosystem. This is a high-leverage role where you will be trusted with substantial autonomy to make foundational design decisions. Working directly with the founders, you will bridge the gap between high-finance performance and decentralized innovation to deliver a best-in-class trading experience.

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