Engineering Lead- Options

Keyrock is a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for its partnerships and innovation. They are seeking a Head of Engineering / Engineering Lead with strong experience in systematic options trading to lead their Options Engineering team and drive continuous improvement across the trading infrastructure.

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
• Strong team player with the ability to lead, mentor, and guide engineers
• Pragmatic approach to problem-solving, system design, and implementation
• Able to balance latency, reliability, safety, complexity, and delivery speed
• Comfortable making technical decisions under uncertainty
• Demonstrates outside-the-box thinking while staying grounded in practical delivery
• Communicates clearly and effectively, especially in unfamiliar or ambiguous contexts where clarity is critical
• Able to work closely with traders, quants, risk, product, and infrastructure stakeholders
• Strong ownership mindset, especially for production trading systems
• Strong knowledge of gRPC and experience working with Node.js-based services
• Previous experience with crypto exchange connectivity and/or FPGA technologies