Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Singapore, Singapore Hybrid Employment

OKX is hiring a Staff/Senior Java Engineer, OKX Wallet (Web3)

Responsibilities

  • Own core wallet backend modules.
  • Build and continuously improve address management, asset synchronization, transaction construction, broadcasting, on-chain confirmation, gas estimation, nonce management, and transaction-state tracking.
  • Understand each module's role in the full wallet flow, and keep stability, performance, and maintainability front of mind.
  • For complex requirements, break the problem down before choosing an implementation rather than stacking code or reusing old designs.
  • Work on transfers, token approvals, contract interactions, cross-chain, swaps, DApp connections, and signature-request handling.
  • Understand a transaction's full lifecycle — from initiation through construction, signing, broadcasting, on-chain confirmation, and final state update — and diagnose issues like stuck transactions, duplicate submissions, state inconsistencies, and on-chain success that isn't reflected in the business system, using logs, on-chain data, and call traces.
  • Contribute to technical research, integration design, and feature development, accounting for differences in address models, account systems, transaction structures, signing methods, fees, and confirmation mechanisms — as well as node stability, asset sync, exception compensation, monitoring, and security boundaries.
  • Contribute to day-to-day stability work — monitoring, alerting, rate limiting, graceful degradation, retries, compensation, data reconciliation, and troubleshooting.
  • When incidents occur, help investigate, narrow scope, and fix root causes; for recurring issues, drive systemic fixes such as added monitoring, stronger fallbacks, or design improvements.
  • Take ownership of the modules and projects you're responsible for.
  • On work spanning product, QA, frontend, infrastructure, or other backend teams, proactively sync information, surface dependencies and risks, and drive issues to resolution.
  • When requirements are unclear or opinions diverge, lay out the context, offer your own judgment, and help build consensus.
  • Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and system optimization.
  • Spot unreasonable designs, duplicated logic, and latent risks, and propose actionable improvements.
  • Document technical decisions, post-incident learnings, and best practices, and help less-experienced teammates.
  • Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) to assist with code comprehension, scaffolding, unit tests, code review, troubleshooting, refactoring, and documentation — validating AI output for correctness, project conventions, performance, and security rather than using it unchecked.

Requirements

  • Solid Java backend fundamentals. ~5–10 years of Java backend experience with a strong grasp of collections, concurrency, thread pools, the JVM, network communication, and common performance issues.
  • Proficient with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, MyBatis, or comparable stacks, able to independently design and build medium-to-large backend modules and reason about the mechanics behind the frameworks you use.
  • Experience with complex or high-concurrency systems; comfortable with idempotency, retries, compensation, caching, message queues, distributed locks, data consistency, rate limiting, and service degradation.
  • Able to own module- or service-level design and clearly explain the core flow, failure scenarios, and key trade-offs.
  • Able to understand context and goals on ambiguous problems, separate symptom from root cause, and choose a fitting solution based on business value, user experience, stability, cost, and security — rather than reflexively adding complexity.
  • Able to independently own a module or project end to end, from design through development, testing, and launch.
  • Proactively communicates and resolves dependencies, risks, and blockers, and follows through on launch outcomes rather than stopping at code merge.
  • Experience with wallets, blockchain, trading platforms, on-chain data services, or related systems.
  • Understands addresses, public/private keys, mnemonics, transaction signing, broadcasting, on-chain confirmation, gas, and nonce; familiar with the transaction mechanics of at least one of EVM, Tron, or Solana, and with token standards such as ERC-20 and TRC-20.
  • Sensitivity to private-key, signing, permission, and user-asset security; familiar with replay protection, API authentication, tamper resistance, sensitive-data protection, and least-privilege principles.
  • Actively considers malformed input, duplicate requests, privilege bypass, and data-leak risks when building transaction features.
  • Able to diagnose live issues via log analysis, metrics monitoring, distributed tracing, and thread/memory analysis; can form hypotheses and narrow scope even with incomplete information.
  • Hands-on experience with performance degradation, timeouts, message backlogs, data inconsistencies, memory issues, or unstable third-party services.
  • Willing to use AI coding tools to improve daily efficiency and able to judge whether AI output meets real business requirements before shipping it.
  • Has a basic understanding of prompts, context management, RAG, AI agents, and MCP, or a genuine willingness to keep learning — treating AI as an engineering tool, not requiring an algorithm/model-training background.

Nice to Have

  • Integration work on new public chains, new asset standards, or cross-chain protocols
  • Familiarity with WalletConnect, DApp Browser, or signature-request handling
  • Knowledge of MPC, multisig, hardware wallets, or TEE-based key-security schemes
  • Experience with Swap, staking, cross-chain bridges, or DeFi aggregation
  • Address risk detection, allow/deny lists, anti-fraud, or wallet risk-control experience
  • High-concurrency transaction systems, blockchain node services, on-chain data indexing, or transaction-state-tracking systems
  • Familiarity with RPC calls, block scanning, chain reorgs, transaction compensation, and reconciliation mechanisms
  • JVM performance tuning, stability governance, or complex production-incident experience
  • Cross-team collaboration with a track record of driving projects to delivery
  • Real projects built with AI — e.g. AI code review, development agents, MCP servers, intelligent troubleshooting, or knowledge bases
  • Follows developments in AI coding assistants and LLM applications and shares practical takeaways with the team

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation
  • Comprehensive insurance coverage for you and your dependents
  • More benefits to be discussed after you join
Required Skills
Spring BootSpring CloudMyBatisBlockchain
About company
OKX
OKX is a leading crypto exchange and the developer of OKX Wallet, providing access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). It serves millions of individuals and hundreds of large institutions, offering safe and reliable services backed by Proof of Reserves.
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Job Details
Department OKX Web3 Wallet
Category other
Posted 7 hours ago