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My client is a leading Crypto Exchange firm, expanding its presence in APAC, and currently seeking a Network Specialist to be based in their Mainland China office. \Reporting to the Head of Engineering the successful candidate will own the SDK-level connectivity layer for the firm’s iOS and Android apps in the region, and be responsible for the following:
Job Responsibility
Focused on transport-layer logic, connection management, and client-side resilience strategies for users in challenging network environments
Full responsibility for the design, development and maintenance of the connection layer of the firm’s mobile SDKs, with a focus on resilience in the mainland China network environment
Execute and tune multi-endpoint, multi-protocol fallback logic — including domain rotation, IP fallback, and transport switching
Build client-side network health detection and solve the cold start / bootstrap problem
Design the SDK to emit useful telemetry while remaining resilient when the telemetry pipeline itself is unreachable
Liaise with backend and infrastructure teams on edge POP placement and transit selection
Reproduce and debug region-specific connectivity issues using on-device tooling and packet captures
Requirements
5-8 years of mobile SDK development on iOS or Android (both preferred) with significant time spent on the networking layer and a background in protocol design or transport-layer optimization
Solid experience in Fintech, Exchange, Streaming, or Gaming companies, specifically working with mainland China end-users
Proven hands-on experience working on apps for mainland China users with demonstrable reliability improvements, and experience testing directly against real regional network conditions
In-depth understanding of TLS, TCP behaviour, and modern transport protocols (HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC, WebSocket)
Experience with Wireshark, tcpdump, Charles, and platform-specific network debugging tools
Familiarity with native networking stacks (NSURLSession, OkHttp, Cronet) and how to customize them