Engineering Lead, Crypto Options Trading (Remote)

Keyrock; Milano; In loco; EUR 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Remote work options

Flexible hours

Autonomy in time management

Descrizione del lavoro

Keyrock is seeking a Head of Engineering (Options) to lead the Options Engineering team and advance our Rust-native systematic options trading platform. You will drive automated quoting, execution, risk controls, and production reliability across the trading stack.

Based in European or US East Coast time zones, you will collaborate with traders, quants, risk, product, and infra teams to deliver resilient, scalable solutions and mentor a diverse, high-performance team.

Competenze

• 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.

Mansioni

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

Conoscenze

Rust

C++

C

Low-latency trading

Distributed systems

gRPC

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Crypto exchange connectivity

FPGA technologies

Strumenti

Rust native platform

SQL databases

PostgreSQL

kafka/rpc patterns

Descrizione del lavoro

Keyrock is seeking a Head of Engineering (Options) to lead the Options Engineering team and advance our Rust-native systematic options trading platform. You will drive automated quoting, execution, risk controls, and production reliability across the trading stack.

Based in European or US East Coast time zones, you will collaborate with traders, quants, risk, product, and infra teams to deliver resilient, scalable solutions and mentor a diverse, high-performance team.