Expert Frontend Engineer (Node.js/SSR)
at OKX
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Join OKX as an Expert Frontend Engineer focused on Node.js and SSR infrastructure. You will plan, design, develop, and optimize Node.js-based SSR systems to deliver a fast, scalable, and secure trading platform used by millions. You will ensure system stability and performance, translate business requirements into robust infrastructure, and continuously improve code readability and maintainability while staying ahead with new technologies. You will collaborate with a top-tier frontend team to support long-term business iteration.
About OKX:
About the team:
As the front-end developer in OKX, You will be working closely with the top-notch front-end development team on a wide variety of products - developing with performance in mind to serve a world-class digital asset trading platform with millions of active users.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the planning, design, development, and optimization of the company's Node.js and Node.js based SSR infrastructure;
- Ensure system stability, security, and ultimate response speed;
- Perceive business requirements and drive reasonable infrastructure construction based on business scenarios to meet the needs of long term business iteration;
- Refine existed systems, continuously optimizing code readability, maintainability, and extensibility, including module division, technical processes, and implementation methods etc.;
- Keep sensitivity to new technologies and directions, conduct appropriate research and evaluation to keep the system at industry leading level in terms of technology.
Requirements:
- Minimum 7 years of experience in Frontend development; and skilled in Node.js/SSR.
- Strong hands-on experience building Server-Side Rendered (SSR) front-end applications using Node.js is a must.
- Bachelor's degree (Science / Technology / Engineering / Mathematics) or above from accredited universities
- Good logical reasoning and communication skills, strong ability to locate, analyze, and solve problems;
- Solid technical foundation, able to handle business scenarios corresponding to common technical solutions such as A/B testing, traffic distribution, and gray deployment;
- Deep understanding of Node.js with practical experience in reasonable utilization of machine memory and CPU for Node.js/JavaScript;
- Proficient in common frontend development tech stacks including but not limited to React.js, Webpack, npm, TypeScript, etc.;
- Good engineering capabilities and efficiency improvement awareness;
- Possess certain backend capabilities, familiar with one or more common backend programming languages (Java, Go, Rust, Python, etc.); familiar with various frontend-backend interaction scenarios;
- Good control over technical implementation details, able to pursue excellence and perfection.
Nice to haves:
- Highly attentive to community reported vulnerabilities in common frameworks, able to reproduce attack principles;
- Have certain code cleanliness obsession;
- Have deeply read source code of certain technical frameworks; have unique and profound understanding of design patterns, programming philosophy/concepts, etc.;
- Have experience in large scale project development and maintenance; have deep thinking and practice regarding production business stability;
- Have long term maintained personal GitHub, technical blogs, or other channels for technical accumulation and sharing;
- Knowledge structure is not limited to frontend and Node.js, able to quickly use similar solutions from other tech stacks;
- Have experience in the financial industry.
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees' growth and development
- Various team building programs and company events
- Wellness and meal allowances
- Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
- More that we love to tell you along the process!

