Head of Engineering: Systematic Options Trading

Keyrock; Kraków; On-site; PLN 605,536 - 821,799; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote-friendly

Equity options

Job summary

Keyrock is seeking a Head of Engineering / Engineering Lead for the Options team. You will lead a ~7 engineers, drive continuous improvement of trading infrastructure, including automated quoting, execution, risk controls, pricing workflows, and production reliability.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in systematic trading, strong Rust/C/C++, experience in options trading, and comfortable working across traders, quants, risk, product, and infra.

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, 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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Rust

C++

C

Tools

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Node.js

FPGA

Job description

Keyrock is seeking a Head of Engineering / Engineering Lead for the Options team. You will lead a ~7 engineers, drive continuous improvement of trading infrastructure, including automated quoting, execution, risk controls, pricing workflows, and production reliability.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in systematic trading, strong Rust/C/C++, experience in options trading, and comfortable working across traders, quants, risk, product, and infra.