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KEKeyrock

Head of Engineering(m/w/x)

Zürich
Full-timeWith Home OfficeManagement

Leading a 7-person Options Engineering team building a Rust-native trading platform for digital assets. Deep Rust proficiency and systematic options trading experience required. Remote work, flexible hours, entrepreneurial experience.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in systematic options trading
  • 7+ years systematic trading, options market-making, or low-latency trading systems experience
  • Strong hands-on experience with Rust, C++, or C
  • Willingness to become deeply proficient in Rust
  • Strong understanding of algorithmic options trading
  • Experience building or maintaining low-latency trading systems
  • Experience with SQL databases in production environments
  • Familiarity with functional testing, component testing, and production-grade validation
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, service boundaries, and production reliability
  • Strong knowledge of gRPC and Node.js-based services
  • Previous experience with crypto exchange connectivity and/or FPGA technologies
  • Strong team player with leadership and mentoring ability
  • Self-awareness and powerful communication skills
  • Fiercely passionate with self-understanding and clear career goals
  • Right skills and conscious choice to join the field
  • Crypto enthusiast, driven, collaborative, ownership, delivers solid, scalable outcomes

Tasks

  • Lead and grow an Options Engineering team of 7 engineers
  • Drive continuous improvement in trading infrastructure
  • Support the evolution of the systematic options trading platform
  • Manage automated quoting, execution, and risk controls
  • Maintain and enhance a Rust-native trading platform
  • Provide technical direction in system design and performance
  • Ensure reliability and risk management in trading systems
  • Solve complex engineering and trading-system challenges
  • Collaborate with trading, quant, product, risk, and infrastructure teams
  • Balance technical and people leadership
  • Mentor and guide engineers
  • Balance latency, reliability, safety, and delivery speed
  • Make technical decisions under uncertainty
  • Think creatively while focusing on practical solutions
  • Communicate clearly in ambiguous contexts
  • Work closely with traders, quants, risk, product, and infrastructure stakeholders
  • Demonstrate strong ownership of production trading systems

Work Experience

  • 7 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • Rust
  • C++
  • C
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • gRPC
  • Node.js
  • FPGA

Benefits

Flexible Working

  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote work opportunity

Startup Environment

  • Entrepreneurial experience

Informal Culture

  • Positive and collaborative work environment

Career Advancement

  • Merit-based hiring and promotion
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