Options Engineering Lead: Rust-Powered Trading (Remote)

Keyrock; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Flexible working hours

Remote work option

Job summary

Keyrock is seeking an Engineering Lead for the Options team. You will steer the development of a Rust-native systematic trading platform, drive improvements across automated quoting, execution, risk controls, and production reliability.

This role is primarily remote with European or US East Coast time zones in mind, and you will mentor a growing team of engineers. You will collaborate with traders, quants, product, risk, and infrastructure to balance performance, latency, safety, and delivery

Qualifications

• 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 with SQL databases in production environments, PostgreSQL preferred.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, production reliability.
• Experience with crypto exchange connectivity and/or FPGA technologies is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow an Options Engineering team of around 7 engineers.
• Provide technical direction across trading infrastructure, system design, performance, reliability, and risk controls.
• Own and evolve a Rust-native systematic options trading platform.
• Collaborate with traders, quants, risk, product, and infrastructure stakeholders.
• Balance technical leadership with people leadership and delivery ownership.

Skills

Systematic trading

Options market-making

Low-latency trading

Rust

C++

C

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Node.js

Tools

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Node.js

Job description

Keyrock is seeking an Engineering Lead for the Options team. You will steer the development of a Rust-native systematic trading platform, drive improvements across automated quoting, execution, risk controls, and production reliability.

This role is primarily remote with European or US East Coast time zones in mind, and you will mentor a growing team of engineers. You will collaborate with traders, quants, product, risk, and infrastructure to balance performance, latency, safety, and delivery