Keyrock

Keyrock

Head of Engineering - Options

New York

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 91 days ago
RustC++Node.jsDistributed SystemsSQLPostgreSQLgRPCFPGAManual TestingResearchLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingTime Management

About the role

  • Head of Engineering: Options About Keyrock Since our beginnings in 2017, we've grown to be a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation.
  • Today, we rock with over 200 team members around the world.
  • Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from DeFi natives to PhDs.

Nice to have

  • Bring hands-on experience in systematic options trading, ideally including options market-making, automated quoting, execution, and risk management
  • Work pragmatically through complex engineering and trading-system challenges
  • Balance technical leadership with people leadership, delivery ownership, and operational discipline
  • 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, risk controls, and market data workflows
  • Experience working with SQL databases in production environments, with PostgreSQL preferred

Compensation

  • A competitive salary package

Company info

  • About Keyrock
  • Since our beginnings in 2017, we've grown to be a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation.
  • Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Madrid, Brussels, Singapore, New York and Paris, and host regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight.
  • We are trading on more than 80 exchanges, and working with a wide array of asset issuers.
  • As a well-established market maker, our distinctive expertise led us to expand rapidly.
  • Today, our services span market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks as well as asset and wealth management.
  • Keyrock is looking to expand and establish itself as a full-service capital markets and asset & wealth management financial institution through both organic innovation and inorganic growth.
  • But we're more than a service provider.
  • We're an initiator.
  • We have been pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for our algorithmic trading systems, and champions of its use in the industry.
  • We upgrade Web3 ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols.
  • And we push the industry's progress with our research and governance initiatives.
  • At Keyrock, we're not just envisioning the future of digital assets.
  • We're actively building it.
  • Mission statement
  • We are looking for a Head of Engineering / Engineering Lead with strong experience in systematic options trading to lead our Options Engineering team.
  • In this role, you will be responsible for leading the Options Engineering team, driving continuous improvement across the trading infrastructure, and supporting the evolution of our systematic options trading platform.
  • This includes areas such as automated quoting, execution, risk controls, pricing workflows, and production reliability.
  • We are primarily looking for candidates based in European time zones or the US East Coast time zone.

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