Engineering Lead - Options - Keyrock

Engineering Lead: Options

About Keyrock

Since our beginnings in 2017, we've grown to be a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation.

Today, we rock with over 200 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from DeFi natives to PhDs. Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Madrid, Brussels, Singapore , New York and Paris, and host regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight.

We are trading on more than 80 exchanges, and working with a wide array of asset issuers. As a well-established market maker, our distinctive expertise led us to expand rapidly. Today, our services span market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks as well as asset and wealth management. Keyrock is looking to expand and establish itself as a full-service capital markets and asset & wealth management financial institution through both organic innovation and inorganic growth.

But we’re more than a service provider. We’re an initiator. We have been pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for our algorithmic trading systems, and champions of its use in the industry. We upgrade Web3 ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols. And we push the industry's progress with our research and governance initiatives.

At Keyrock , we're not just envisioning the future of digital assets. We're actively building it.

Mission statement We are looking for a Head of Engineering / Engineering Lead with strong experience in systematic options trading to lead our Options Engineering team.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading the Options Engineering team, driving continuous improvement across the trading infrastructure, and supporting the evolution of our systematic options trading platform. This includes areas such as automated quoting, execution, risk controls, pricing workflows, and production reliability.

We are primarily looking for candidates based in European time zones or the US East Coast time zone .

We are looking for someone who can:

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

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