Engineering Lead- Options - Keyrock
Engineering Lead
Posted: April 22, 2026
Posted 78 days ago
Last seen in crawl: July 7, 2026 (1d ago)
Estimated Expiry: May 27, 2026
Location
New York, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Budapest, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Dubai, Dublin, Eindhoven, EMEA, Florida, Frankfurt, Geneva, Johannesburg, Krakow, Lisbon, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, New Jersey, Ontario, Paris, Porto, Prague, Rome, Rotterdam, Sofia, Tallinn, Victoria, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zug, Zurich
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Job Description
Keyrock is looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to head the Options Engineering team. The role involves leading the development of a Rust-native systematic options trading platform, overseeing automated quoting, execution, risk controls, and ensuring system reliability. The candidate should have over 7 years of experience in low-latency trading systems, proficiency in Rust, C++, or C, and a deep understanding of algorithmic options trading. The position offers flexible remote work, a competitive salary, and a collaborative environment. Candidates should be based in European or US East Coast time zones.
Company Information
| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Remote - Global | 24 |
| Remote | 14 |
| Brussels, Belgium | 12 |
| Luxembourg | 11 |
| Warsaw, Poland | 9 |
| Zurich, Switzerland | 9 |
| Tallinn, Estonia | 9 |
| Eindhoven, Netherlands | 9 |
| Geneva, Switzerland | 9 |
| Zagreb, Croatia | 9 |
| Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9 |
| Antwerp, Belgium | 9 |
| London, United Kingdom | 9 |
| Paris, France | 9 |
| Budapest, Hungary | 9 |
| Rome, Italy | 9 |
| Lisbon, Portugal | 9 |
| Dublin, Ireland | 8 |
| Copenhagen, Denmark | 8 |
| Vienna, Austria | 8 |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 8 |
| Manama, Bahrain | 8 |
| Zug, Switzerland | 7 |
| Barcelona, Spain | 7 |
| Sofia, Bulgaria | 6 |
| Berlin, Germany | 5 |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina | 4 |
| Dubai, UAE | 4 |
| Cape Town, South Africa | 4 |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 3 |
| Sofia | 2 |
| Brussels | 2 |
| Istanbul | 2 |
| New York, United States | 2 |
| Vienna | 2 |
| Lisbon | 2 |
| Frankfurt | 2 |
| Warsaw | 2 |
| Athens | 2 |
| Dublin | 2 |
| Rome | 2 |
| Rotterdam | 2 |
| Seychelles | 2 |
| London, UK | 2 |
| Budapest | 2 |
| Zagreb | 2 |
| Manama | 2 |
| Berlin | 2 |
| Tallinn | 2 |
| Dubai | 2 |
| Paris | 2 |
| Amsterdam | 2 |
| Athens, Greece | 2 |
| Zurich | 2 |
| Antwerp | 2 |
| Istanbul, Turkey | 2 |
| Eindhoven | 2 |
| London | 2 |
| Barcelona | 2 |
| Geneva | 2 |
| Milan, Italy | 1 |
| Copenhagen | 1 |
| Porto, Portugal | 1 |
| Zug | 1 |
| Porto | 1 |
| Abu Dhabi, UAE | 1 |
| Krakow | 1 |
| Milan | 1 |
| Madrid, Spain | 1 |
| Singapore | 1 |
| Hong Kong | 1 |
| Prague | 1 |
| Cape Town | 1 |
| Abu Dhabi | 1 |
| São Paulo, Brazil | 1 |
| Johannesburg | 1 |
| New York, USA | 1 |
| Madrid | 1 |
| Ghent, Belgium | 1 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 9 |
| Head of Engineering | 3 |
| Product Manager | 3 |
| Content Intern | 2 |
| QA Automation Engineer | 1 |
| Marketing Specialist | 1 |
| Data-Manager | 1 |
| Cloud Architect | 1 |
| Data Engineer | 1 |
| Security Engineer | 1 |
| Quantitative Analyst | 1 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Quantitative Researcher | 1 |
| Trading | 1 |
| Trader | 1 |
| Data Architect | 1 |
| Infrastructure Architect | 1 |
| Financial Services Manager | 1 |
| Corporate Sales | 1 |
| Director of Corporate Sales | 1 |
| Manager | 1 |
| Product Management | 1 |
| Engineer | 1 |
| Human Resources Specialist | 1 |
| Financial Trader | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Mid-Level | 11 |
| Senior | 3 |
| Manager | 2 |
| Mid-level | 1 |
| Junior | 1 |
Keyrock appears in 346 indexed job postings in JobCrawls' Finland dataset since October 2023. In that historical index, the strongest location signals for this employer are Remote - Global, Remote, and Brussels, Belgium.
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Job Details
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills & Technologies
RustC++CSQLPostgreSQLgRPCNode.jsFPGA technologies
Benefits & Perks
Benefits
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