Head of Engineering - Options

Keyrock
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Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Rust","C++","C","SQL","PostgreSQL","GRPC","Node.js","FPGA"]

Lead the Options Engineering team to advance Keyrock's Rust-native systematic options trading platform. Drive improvements across automated quoting, execution, risk controls, pricing workflows, and production reliability. Provide technical direction on trading infrastructure, system design, and latency-sensitive components while collaborating with traders, quants, risk, product, and infrastructure teams.

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Head of Engineering - Options

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Job Summary

Lead the Options Engineering team to advance Keyrock's Rust-native systematic options trading platform. Drive improvements across automated quoting, execution, risk controls, pricing workflows, and production reliability. Provide technical direction on trading infrastructure, system design, and latency-sensitive components while collaborating with traders, quants, risk, product, and infrastructure teams.
Location: New York, Rome, Barcelona, Switzerland, Porto, Cape Town, Ontario, Eindhoven, Geneva, New Jersey, Milan, Amsterdam, Manama, Bahrain, Madrid, London, Dubai, Copenhagen, Vienna, Prague, Athens, Budapest, Paris, Frankfurt, Dublin, Warsaw, Sofia, Luxembourg, Brussels, EMEA, Zurich, Abu Dhabi, Lisbon, United States, England, Tallinn, Estonia, Florida, Rotterdam, Krakow, Chicago, Johannesburg, Zagreb
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and grow an Options Engineering team of around 7 engineers
  • •Bring hands-on experience in systematic options trading, 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
  • •Balance technical leadership with people leadership, delivery ownership, and operational discipline

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote Work

Key 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
  • •Experience working with SQL databases in production environments, with PostgreSQL preferred
  • •Familiarity with distributed systems, service boundaries, and production reliability
Experience:7+ yearsDigital assetCryptoDeFiMarket making
Skills:RustC++CSQLPostgreSQLGRPCNode.jsFPGA
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RustC++CSQLPostgreSQLGRPCNode.jsFPGA

Company Brief

Keyrock
Keyrock provides algorithmic trading, market making, OTC and asset management services for digital assets, using proprietary high-frequency trading infrastructure to supply liquidity across crypto exchanges and DeFi protocols.
Industry: Asset Management
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium
Founded: 2017
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