Technical Lead (Rust)

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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 rock with over 180 team members around the world, hailing from 42 nationalities and ranging from De
Fi natives to Ph
Ds. Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore, and host regular online and offline hangouts.

We are trading on more than 80 exchanges and partner with a wide array of asset issuers. As a well‑established market maker, our services span market making, options trading, high‑frequency trading, OTC, and De
Fi trading desks. We also are pioneers in adopting the Rust development language for algorithmic trading, championing its use in the industry and supporting Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program.

Mission Statement

The Tech Lead bridges business objectives with technical execution. It is a hybrid position combining hands‑on engineering, architectural leadership, and team enablement. The Tech Lead is a senior technical contributor who drives the implementation and delivery of engineering initiatives, ensuring systems are built to high standards of reliability, performance, and maintainability. While the Head of Engineering focuses on strategic alignment, the Tech Lead operates as the executional deputy, translating strategic objectives into code, architecture, and delivery outcomes.

Job Description

• Act as the technical point of accountability for the Service Market Making Business Unit.
• Balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery, ensuring systems are built to last while meeting immediate needs.
• Champion collaboration across teams, ensuring alignment between product, design, QA, and engineering.
• Inspire and develop engineers through mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance, fostering growth and autonomy within the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Head of Engineering to own delivery of entire work‑streams, ensuring architecture and engineering decisions align with both immediate requirements and business strategy.
• Contribute directly through coding while focusing on architecture design, peer reviews, and cross‑functional communication.
• Provide structured feedback through design and code reviews, support skill development, and empower junior and mid‑level engineers to take ownership.
• Guide system design, ensure scalability and resilience, and optimise performance across applications and infrastructure.
• Uphold engineering best practices, enforce coding guidelines, and partner with QA to embed automation and validation in the delivery pipeline.
• Manage technical debt, lead refactoring initiatives, and ensure long‑term maintainability and operational excellence.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and QA engineers to define scope, refine requirements, and plan delivery transparently.
• Anticipate technical risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs early, and propose mitigations to safeguard delivery timelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in a Technical Leadership position guiding teams, shaping architecture, and driving delivery of complex projects.
• Demonstrated expertise in architecting and maintaining high‑concurrency, low‑latency trading systems at scale.
• Advanced proficiency in Rust; working knowledge of Node. js (Java
  Script/Type
  Script) and Python is an advantage.
• Deep experience with data‑intensive architectures and real‑time data pipelines.
• Proven track record deploying, optimising and operating AWS environments for ultra‑low‑latency workloads.
• Hands‑on experience containerising applications and managing Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Familiarity with Git
  Ops workflows to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployments.
• Solid command of software engineering best practices, including Agile methodologies, Dev
  Ops principles and end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Dev
  Sec
  Fin
  Ops principles to embed security, compliance and cost‑governance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Demonstrated leadership of engineering teams, with a commitment to fostering collaboration, mentorship and continuous professional growth.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, able to partner effectively with Product, Architecture, Quantitative Research and Operations.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving mindset, with a passion for building scalable, reliable and secure systems.
• Deep domain knowledge of finance and trading, particularly within the cryptocurrency sector.
• Experience in fast‑paced, dynamic financial or fintech environments is highly desirable.

Soft Skills & Competencies

• Ownership & Reliability – take full responsibility for your work, deliver high‑quality service, meet deadlines, and follow through on commitments.
• Initiative & Problem‑Solving – approach challenges with a problem‑solving entrepreneurial mindset, make sound independent judgments and drive solutions.
• Operational Diligence – respond strategically to technical and operational challenges, ensuring robust and reliable infrastructure while instilling confidence in the team’s processes.
• Curiosity & Growth Mindset – continuously seek to improve technical skills, stay ahead of industry trends, and practice new technologies that excite you.
• Excellent Communication Skills – collaborate within a fully remote global team.

Location & Remote Options

We would like the successful candidate to be based in the UK or Europe. Remote and flexible work options are available.

Recruitment Philosophy

We value self‑awareness in our recruitment process. We seek people who understand themselves and their career goals. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Our Offer

• A competitive salary package, with various benefits depending on the method of engagement (employee or freelancer).
• Autonomy in your time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely.
• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence.

Legal & Logistics

As an employer we are committed to building an inclusive, diverse and non‑discriminating work environment. We welcome employees of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, creed and sexual orientation. 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 these is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.

https://keyrock.com/careers/