Engineering Lead - Options
Keyrock is a crypto market maker providing algorithmic liquidity, OTC trading, derivatives, and asset management services to institutions across centralized and decentralized venues.
Funding history
About Keyrock
Keyrock provides institutional digital asset trading services through proprietary algorithmic technology deployed across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Users can access market making, over-the-counter block trades, options structures for hedging and yield, and managed fund strategies. The firm operates across multiple regulated jurisdictions including Belgium, the UK, Switzerland, France, and the US.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead and grow the Options Engineering team and take ownership of the Rust-native systematic options trading platform. You will evolve automated quoting, execution, pricing workflows and risk controls, improve production reliability, and direct technical design and performance work. You will work hands-on with Rust, C++ or C on low-latency trading systems, collaborate with trading, quant, product, risk and infrastructure stakeholders, and balance technical leadership with delivery ownership and operational discipline.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in systematic trading, options market-making or low-latency trading systems
- Strong hands-on experience with Rust, C++ or C
- Willingness to become deeply proficient in Rust if not already
- Strong understanding of algorithmic options trading including automated quoting, execution, pricing and risk control
- Experience building or maintaining low-latency trading systems, ideally within options or derivatives markets
- Experience working with SQL databases in production environments, PostgreSQL preferred
- Familiarity with functional testing, component testing and production-grade validation practices
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, service boundaries and production reliability
- Knowledge of gRPC and experience with Node.js-based services preferred
- Previous experience with crypto exchange connectivity and/or FPGA technologies preferred
- Ability to lead, mentor and guide engineers and make technical decisions under uncertainty
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Options Engineering team
- Own and evolve the Rust-native systematic options trading platform
- Drive continuous improvement of automated quoting, execution, pricing workflows and risk controls
- Provide technical direction across trading infrastructure, system design, performance, reliability and risk control
- Work pragmatically through complex engineering and trading-system challenges
- Partner closely with trading, quant, product, risk and infrastructure stakeholders
- Balance technical leadership with people leadership, delivery ownership and operational discipline
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunity to work remotely
- Autonomy in time management
- Freedom to create an entrepreneurial experience within the role
