Engineering Lead- Options

Keyrock • New York, NY

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Since its beginnings in 2017, Keyrock has grown to be a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for its partnerships and innovation. The company currently has over 200 team members from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from DeFi natives to PhDs. Keyrock operates predominantly remotely with hubs in London, Madrid, Brussels, Singapore, New York, and Paris, and hosts regular online and offline hangouts. Keyrock trades on more than 80 exchanges and works with a wide array of asset issuers. As a well-established market maker, its expertise has led to rapid expansion, with services spanning market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks, as well as asset and wealth management. Keyrock aims to expand and establish itself as a full-service capital markets and asset & wealth management financial institution through organic innovation and inorganic growth. The company is also a pioneer in adopting the Rust Development language for algorithmic trading systems, upgrades Web3 ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols, and pushes industry progress with research and governance initiatives. Keyrock is actively building the future of digital assets. The company is seeking a Head of Engineering / Engineering Lead with strong experience in systematic options trading to lead its Options Engineering team. This role involves leading the Options Engineering team, driving continuous improvement across the trading infrastructure, and supporting the evolution of the systematic options trading platform, including automated quoting, execution, risk controls, pricing workflows, and production reliability. Keyrock is primarily looking for candidates based in European time zones or the US East Coast time zone.

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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow an Options Engineering team of around 7 engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement across the trading infrastructure.
• Support the evolution of the systematic options trading platform, including automated quoting, execution, risk controls, pricing workflows, and production reliability.
• 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.

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.
• Commitment to building a positive and collaborative work environment, welcoming employees of all backgrounds, and hiring, rewarding, and promoting entirely based on merit and performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees