Senior Digital Assets Developer C++

A lead Crypto Exchange are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineer with a strong background in C++ to join our Custody Engineering team within the Digital Assets industry. Based in Hong Kong, this role offers a unique opportunity to work on critical infrastructure that supports secure, scalable, and innovative solutions for digital asset custody.

You will play a key role in designing and implementing high-performance, low-latency systems for secure key management, transaction processing, and ledger reconciliation. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to the architecture and execution of our next-generation custody platform supporting a broad spectrum of blockchain protocols and digital assets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure C++ applications within the custody engineering domain.
• Implement cryptographic protocols and key management systems to support secure handling of digital assets.
• Optimise system performance for low-latency transaction processing and high availability.
• Collaborate with blockchain experts, product managers, and infrastructure teams to define technical strategy and requirements.
• Ensure code quality through code reviews, testing, and continuous integration practices.
• Act as a technical mentor to junior engineers and participate in knowledge sharing across the team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in software engineering with a strong focus on C++ development.
• Extensive experience with modern C++ standards (C++11 and onwards), multithreaded programming, and memory management.
• Demonstrated experience building high-performance, low-latency systems, ideally within the financial or digital assets sector.
• Familiarity with blockchain technologies, consensus mechanisms, and smart contracts is highly desirable.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex technical challenges and propose effective solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate in a globally distributed team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of cryptographic algorithms, security protocols, and secure coding practices.
• Familiarity with custody systems.
• Experience with smart contracts development.
• Extensive experience with modern C++ 17.