Product Manager, High Frequency Trading

Phiture; Lisboa; Teletrabalho; EUR 75 000 - 95 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading digital asset firm is seeking a highly skilled Product Manager to oversee their High-Frequency Trading (HFT) product vertical. This role demands expertise in low-latency systems, where you'll drive product strategy, ensure high availability, and continuously innovate. Candidates need a strong technical background and a passion for digital assets. A competitive salary and flexible remote working options are offered.

Serviços

Competitive salary package

Flexible working hours

Remote work opportunity

Inclusive work environment

Qualificações

• Experience in developing low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
• Strong analytical skills for financial models.
• Deep understanding of electronic trading systems.

Responsabilidades

• Drive design of HFT systems, ensuring sub-millisecond latency.
• Maintain 99.99% uptime for trading systems.
• Shape product activities contributing to P&L.

Conhecimentos

Low-Latency Systems Experience

Quantitative Acumen

Technical Proficiency

Trading & Risk Management Exposure

Proven Product Execution

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Overview

Location: Remote, local to regional Keyrock hub locations

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 partner with over 180 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from self-taught DeFi natives to PhDs. Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore, 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. We’re more than a service provider. We’re an initiator, pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for algorithmic trading, and champions of its use in the industry. We support the growth of Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program, upgrade ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols, and push the industry’s progress with our research and governance initiatives. At Keyrock, we’re actively building the future of digital assets.

Mission

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Manager to oversee our High-Frequency Trading (HFT) product vertical. This role focuses on the discovery, design, and delivery of trading systems where every microsecond counts.

You will be responsible for driving the product strategy for our HFT systems, ensuring sub-millisecond latency and near-perfect uptime, while balancing aggressive performance goals with robust risk management and regulatory compliance. You will act as the crucial link between our elite trading teams and our world-class engineers, translating complex quantitative needs into a clear, actionable roadmap that directly impacts our P&L and market share.

Responsibilities

• Keyrock Product Managers are responsible for developing valuable and viable systems (and implicit services) that consider the voices of:
• Business & Commercial teams
• Trading & Research teams
• Engineering builders

The position requires a versatile skill set across these three competencies, enabling candidates to tackle research responsibilities with confidence.

Outcomes

• Low-Latency System Leadership: Drive the focus, design, and continuous improvement of HFT systems, achieving and maintaining sub-millisecond latency for critical trading operations.
• High-Availability Operations: Maintain 99.99% uptime for all critical trading systems and their underlying infrastructure.
• Commercial Impact & Strategy: Shape product activities with a focus on commercial impact, contributing to P&L, market share, and capital efficiency targets.
• Continuous Product Innovation: Lead the discovery, design, and development of trading enhancements and risk monitoring tools.
• Strategic Roadmapping & Communication: Develop, own, and clearly communicate the product roadmap with traders, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• System Resilience & Validation: Oversee stress-testing and integration into back-testing frameworks to validate performance and robustness.
• Regulatory & Compliance Alignment: Define and integrate compliance requirements into the product roadmap.
• Market & Vendor Intelligence: Manage relationships with data providers and exchanges and monitor the competitive landscape.
• Stakeholder Nexus: Serve as the central communication hub between traders, quants, engineers, and other stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Low-Latency Systems Experience: Demonstrable exposure to PM or development of low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
• Quantitative Acumen: Strong analytical skills for financial models and trading strategies.
• Technical Proficiency: Deep understanding of components of a modern electronic trading system, from market data ingestion to order execution.
• Trading & Risk Management Exposure: Knowledge of financial trading principles and risk management in high-stakes environments.
• Proven Product Execution: Track record of translating complex needs into actionable engineering requirements.

Beneficial experience

• Understanding of market microstructure, particularly in crypto markets.
• Passion for digital assets and crypto trading.
• Experience with agile product management and measurement of delivery efficiency.
• Background in software development or infrastructure engineering, especially real-time or high-performance systems.
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance landscape for financial markets.
• Experience in fintech, particularly derivatives markets.

Our recruitment philosophy

We value self-awareness in our recruitment process. We seek people who understand themselves and their career goals. We’re after those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit is a crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Why Keyrock?

• Be at the forefront of innovation in digital assets and AI.
• Work on challenging problems with a direct impact on the business.
• A competitive salary package, with various benefits depending on the method of engagement (employee or freelancer).
• Autonomy in time management with flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely.
• The freedom to create an entrepreneurial experience as part of a team pursuing excellence.

As an employer we are committed to building an inclusive, diverse and non-discriminating work environment. We welcome employees of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, creeds and sexual orientations. We hire, reward and promote entirely based on merit and performance.

Due to the nature of our business and external requirements, we perform background checks on all potential employees, passing which is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.