Principal Backend Development Engineer(C++)

Bybit is seeking a Principal Backend Development Engineer with C++ expertise to join their team in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates. This role is crucial for building and maintaining the core financial ecosystem of Bybit, focusing on high concurrency, stability, and low latency.

Bybit is evolving into a complete end-to-end financial platform, connecting digital assets with real-world outcomes and aiming to remove the barriers of traditional finance. Join us in building the new financial platform.

Company Overview

Bybit is building a new financial ecosystem that connects digital assets and real world outcomes. We are evolving beyond a crypto exchange into a complete end-to-end financial platform, designed to remove the friction, limits, and barriers of traditional finance. Our platform enables seamless access to global markets, cross-border payments, and financial tools that were historically limited to a few. From banking and payments to trading, wealth creation, and real-world asset exposure, Bybit connects users to a modern financial system that is always on, borderless, and accessible.

For institutions, Bybit provides the infrastructure to confidently enter digital finance — from custody and tokenized assets to compliant pathways bridging traditional and next-generation financial systems. We work alongside regulators, build for global scale, and connect capital, markets, and opportunity in one place. Bybit. The New Financial Platform.

Quick Details

• Salary Range: Not Specified
• Job Type: Full-time
• Qualifications: bachelors-degree
• Experience: 5 Year+

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the design and development of the backend system of the trading core system.
• Responsible for system maintenance, upgrade and optimization, overcoming various technical difficulties brought by high concurrency, stability, low latency, etc.
• Strong business sense, participate in business design, propose feasible and constructive solutions, and be able to independently write relevant technical documents.
• Participate in research and practice of cutting-edge technologies, promote and plan the future technology architecture direction of the platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above, major in computer science.
• C++ solid foundation, familiar with folly, boost and other open source libraries, studied excellent open source component source code and experience is preferred.
• Proficient in NoSQL cache, message queue, search engines, such as Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Skilled in system analysis and design, code refactoring, with experience in large-scale project foundation and application architecture design.
• Familiar with the design and application of distributed systems with high traffic, high concurrency, and high performance, and skilled in performance tuning is preferred.
• Full stack technical expert/trading system construction experience/memory system construction experience bonus points.

Benefits