Backend Senior Manager

Lead the company's backend technical strategy, roadmap, architecture, system lifecycle, security, compliance, and development organization supporting digital currency trading, payments, authentication, and settlement.

Responsibilities

• Formulate backend technical strategy, roadmap, and system architecture plans.
• Lead design and optimization of core backend architecture and technology stack.
• Research and introduce backend technologies, tools, and methodologies.
• Evaluate technical solutions for core business scenarios.
• Oversee backend development from design through deployment and operation.
• Supervise trading, payment settlement, user, asset, risk control, and API gateway modules.
• Manage system iteration, maintenance, performance monitoring, and bottleneck resolution.
• Coordinate with DevOps on CI/CD pipeline optimization.
• Establish backend security management, audits, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests.
• Ensure compliance with FATF, MiCA, and local regulations.
• Establish disaster recovery and emergency response mechanisms.
• Build, manage, and develop the backend engineering team.
• Assign work, resolve complex technical issues, and organize training.
• Manage team performance and professional growth.
• Collaborate with product, app development, trading, compliance, risk, operations, data, and external technical partners.
• Manage backend projects, budgets, costs, quality, risks, and technical resources.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend development and management experience.
• 5+ years of senior backend team management experience.
• Experience in fintech, digital currency, payments, or large-scale financial institutions preferred.
• Experience leading large-scale, high-concurrency, highly available backend systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, Python, or Node.js.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native technologies.
• Strong system architecture design capabilities.
• Knowledge of encryption, authentication, authorization, anti-attack measures, and digital asset security compliance.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, and alerting.
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Prometheus.
• Knowledge of digital currency exchange business, including spot and derivative trading, fund flows, and settlement.
• Strong leadership, strategic thinking, decision-making, and resource integration skills.
• Strong technical research and learning ability.
• Excellent Chinese and English communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• PMP, CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect certifications preferred.

Benefits

• Meaningful cross-functional collaboration.
• Opportunities for career advancement in a fast-growing organization.
• Culture that welcomes data-backed ideas and innovation.