Senior Engineer, Risk Platform Engineering

Posted:
10/13/2025, 1:07:21 PM

Location(s):
Hong Kong, China

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

About Bullish

Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services. These include: Bullish Exchange – a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar. CoinDesk Indices – a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries. CoinDesk Data - a broad suite of digital assets market data and analytics, providing real-time insights into prices, trends, and market dynamics. CoinDesk Insights – a digital asset media and events provider and operator of Coindesk.com, a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy, and blockchain technology.

Reports to:

Manager, Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain robust, high-performance microservices and stream processing pipelines to deliver timely data supporting aspects of Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting, and Clearing functions.

  • Develop a deep understanding of the data models and end-to-end data workflows across Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting, and Clearing functions.

  • Continuously identify cost optimisations and functional/non-functional issues through test automation, compute analysis and performance profiling. 

  • Prioritise automated testing and maintain high standards for code quality and SDLC best practices.

  • Be an opinionated self-starter who takes a strong sense of ownership and excels at distilling complex requirements.

  • Stay current with industry trends to drive continuous improvement in the platform.

  • Work within a global team (HK, SG, UK), coordinating closely with Product Managers and other Engineering teams.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional experience in software development.

  • Hands-on experience with Python and Java, and experience building mission-critical, high-throughput systems.

  • Hands-on experience with middleware such as RabbitMQ and Kafka.

  • Hands-on experience with databases (e.g. SQL/no-SQL like Redis, Postgres, MongoDB).

  • Strong SQL skills. Strong analytical skills.

  • Experience in designing data structures, event schemas and database schemas. 

  • Solid and opinionated knowledge of testing methodologies, coding principles and coding standards.

  • Well versed with standard SDLC practices and tooling around build, test, deploy etc.

  • Hands on with a strong sense of ownership.

  • Ability to operate and thrive in a dynamic startup environment.

  • Passionate about knowledge sharing and mentoring.

  • Eligibility to work in Hong Kong.

Bonus Experience

  • Familiarity with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, GCP), modern DevOps tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker), and workflow orchestration (e.g. Airflow, DBT).

  • Familiarity with big data management and data lake ecosystems (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery).

  • Experience with BI technologies for data visualisation (Tableau, Superset) or delivering simple web-based UIs (React).



 

Bullish is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are fast evolving and striving towards being a globally-diverse community. With integrity at our core, our success is driven by a talented team of individuals and the different perspectives they are encouraged to bring to work every day.