Head of Engineering – Options

🕒 April 22

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Keyrock

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

💰 $72M Series B on 2022-11

Finance • Fintech • Crypto

Keyrock is a leading financial services company specializing in digital asset markets and liquidity solutions. Established in 2017, Keyrock provides market making, OTC trading, options desk services, treasury solutions, and liquidity pool management, tailored for a tokenized world. The company operates across centralized and decentralized platforms with a focus on enhancing and optimizing liquidity through advanced algorithms, ensuring competitive pricing and effective asset management. Keyrock partners with institutions and foundations, supporting them in a rapidly evolving digital economy. With a global reach, the company is based in the EU, UK, and Switzerland and employs over 170 experts worldwide, dedicated to driving success in the digital asset industry.

📋 Description

• Lead and grow an Options Engineering team of around 7 engineers • Bring hands-on experience in systematic options trading, ideally including options market-making, automated quoting, execution, and risk management • Own and evolve an existing Rust-native systematic options trading platform • Provide strong technical direction across trading infrastructure, system design, performance, reliability, and risk controls • 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

🎯 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, risk controls, and market data workflows • Experience building or maintaining low-latency trading systems, ideally within options or derivatives markets • Experience working with SQL databases in production environments, with PostgreSQL preferred • Familiarity with functional testing, component testing, and production-grade validation practices • Strong understanding of distributed systems, service boundaries, and production reliability • Strong knowledge of gRPC and experience working with Node.js-based services is preferred • Previous experience with crypto exchange connectivity and/or FPGA technologies is strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive salary package • Autonomy in your time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely • The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence