Options Engineering Lead — Remote, Rust & Low-Latency

Keyrock; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 1,400,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours & remote work

Competitive salary

Entrepreneurial team culture

Job summary

Keyrock is seeking an Engineering Lead to helm the Options Engineering team, driving the evolution of a Rust-native systematic options trading platform. The role focuses on automated quoting, execution, and risk controls, while partnering with traders, quants, and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability and performance.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in systematic trading or low-latency systems, strong Rust/C/C++ skills, and a track record in options market-making.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in systematic trading, options market-making or low-latency trading systems.
• Hands-on experience with Rust, C++, or C.
• Willingness to become deeply proficient in Rust.
• 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 with SQL databases in production (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Knowledge of distributed systems, service boundaries, and production reliability.
• Familiarity with gRPC and Node.js-based services is preferred.
• 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 technical direction across trading infrastructure and system design.
• Own and evolve the Rust-native options trading platform.
• Collaborate with trading, quant, product, risk, and infrastructure teams.
• Balance technical leadership with delivery ownership and operational discipline.

Skills

Rust

C++

C

SQL databases

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Node.js

FPGA

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQL

Rust-native platform

Node.js-based services

Job description

Keyrock is seeking an Engineering Lead to helm the Options Engineering team, driving the evolution of a Rust-native systematic options trading platform. The role focuses on automated quoting, execution, and risk controls, while partnering with traders, quants, and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability and performance.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in systematic trading or low-latency systems, strong Rust/C/C++ skills, and a track record in options market-making.