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Head of Engineering(m/w/x)
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
- English – Business 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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Head of Engineering(m/w/x)
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
- English – Business 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
About the Company
Keyrock
Industry
FinancialServices
Description
The company is a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, specializing in market making, asset management, and trading services.
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