Rust Engineer Strategic Market Making— Exchange Connectivity Lisboa

Rust Engineer Strategic Market Making— Exchange Connectivity

About Keyrock: Since our beginnings in 2017, we've grown to be a leading
- maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation. Today, we rock with over 200 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from De
Fi natives to Ph
Ds.

We are trading on more than 80 exchanges, and working with a wide array of asset issuers. As a
- established market maker, our distinctive expertise led us to expand rapidly. Today, our services span market making, options trading,
- frequency trading, OTC, and De
Fi trading desks.

Keyrock’s Strategic Market Making (Strat
MM) team is hiring a Rust Engineer to build and evolve our hybrid CEX/DEX exchange connectivity layer. You will own and manage our team's integration path for exchange venues, handling abstractions for execution logic and market data ingestion.

Job Description:

• Design, build, and maintain
  - performance exchange connectivity for orders and market data across multiple venues
• Work on connectivity to novel liquidity access platforms, such as
  - based venues
• Deliver robust, observable services with clear SLAs and graceful failure modes
• Optimize for latency, throughput, and stability in production environments
• Collaborate regularly with traders, quants, and product teams to translate strategy needs into reliable systems
• Establish strong testing, simulation, and replay workflows for fast and safe iteration
• Champion code quality, observability, incident response, and performance profiling, embedding security at every stage
• Help shape technical standards and mentor teammates in a
  - caliber engineering group

Background And Experience:

• 3+ years of
  - on experience in Rust and/or C++ in production
• Proven track record in building exchange connectivity: order entry APIs and lifecycle management, market data handling, parsing, normalization, and distribution
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals: concurrency, memory management, networking, serialization, and observability
• Experience with
  - native deployment and operations in major clouds, e. g. , AWS
• Pragmatic approach to reliability and operability in live trading environments

Nice to have:

• Good working knowledge of Python and how it is used by quants
• Exposure to hybrid or De
  Fi
  - chain DEX connectivity, RPC providers, and MEV-aware workflows
• Familiarity with
  - based frameworks and matching paradigms in crypto markets
• Experience with FIX, Web
  Socket, g
  RPC, REST, custom binary protocols, or feed handlers

We value
- awareness and powerful communication skills in our recruitment process. We seek fiercely passionate people who understand themselves and their career goals.

Our offer includes a competitive salary package, autonomy in your time management, and the freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience.

We are committed to building a positive and collaborative work environment, and we welcome employees of all backgrounds.