Head of Trading Engine

Gate is one of the world's earliest and most mature digital asset platforms, serving tens of millions of users globally. We are consistently ranked among the top global exchanges, providing comprehensive trading and wealth management products covering thousands of digital assets.

• Lead the architectural design and implementation of the next-generation matching engine, including matching models, order book data structures, memory management, and lock-free concurrency.
• Establish extreme engineering standards for latency and throughput, defining and quantifying core metrics such as TPS and P99/P999 latency.
• Build high-availability disaster recovery and full-link fault recovery mechanisms, including multi-active architectures to ensure zero interruption during extreme market conditions.
• Build and lead a world-class engineering team, fostering a top-tier engineering culture and driving technical capability upgrades.

• Experience in high-performance, high-concurrency systems at major tech firms.
• Experience in traditional finance high-frequency trading systems (HFT market makers, derivatives exchanges, or clearing systems).
• Experience in top-tier crypto exchanges focusing on matching engines and high-concurrency optimization.
• Experience in low-latency infrastructure (exchange technology providers or financial cloud infrastructure) focusing on low-level optimization.
• Obsession with micro/nanosecond-level latency and deep understanding of CPU cache lines, network protocol stacks, and kernel details.
• Systematic thinking skills to handle architectural trade-offs under extreme market volatility.
• Ability to balance theoretical matching models with real-world production engineering constraints.