rust developer in trading systems

Keyrock is a digital asset market maker providing market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading services. The company also develops algorithmic trading systems, supports Web3 startups, contributes liquidity to DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols, and advances the industry through research and governance initiatives.

• Design, develop, and optimise low-latency, mission-critical trading systems;
• Own key trading stack components end-to-end, from architecture through production operation;
• Collaborate with quants, traders, and engineers to improve trading performance and resilience;
• Maintain and evolve trading infrastructure with a focus on performance, stability, observability, and operational excellence;
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across exchange connectivity, execution, and market data handling;
• Drive engineering standards through technical leadership, code reviews, and mentoring;
• Leverage AI-assisted workflows, automate operational tasks, and help evolve the team’s agentic tooling;
• Contribute to functional, component, and production-readiness testing for critical trading components;
• Take full responsibility for work, deliver high-quality service, meet deadlines, and address potential issues proactively;
• Drive solutions through independent judgment and an entrepreneurial problem-solving mindset;
• Respond strategically to technical and operational challenges;
• Influence system design, raise engineering standards, mentor engineers, and guide pragmatic technical decisions;
• Continuously improve technical skills, follow industry trends, and explore new technologies;
• Use AI-assisted workflows and autonomous agents to advance engineering automation.

• Production-grade Rust experience building high-performance, concurrent systems;
• Hands-on experience in a systematic trading environment such as HFT, Market Making, Quantitative Trading, or similar;
• Solid understanding of execution, market data, and operational risk;
• Strong AWS and Linux expertise, including cloud infrastructure trade-offs for latency-sensitive workloads, shell scripting, debugging, and production troubleshooting;
• Proficiency in Python or other scripting languages for strategy development, automation, and operational tooling;
• Deep familiarity with FIX, REST, WebSocket, exchange connectivity, and market data feeds;
• Solid understanding of low-latency networking, including TCP/UDP, packet and latency path analysis, dedicated network infrastructure, and kernel bypass techniques such as DPDK;
• Ability to make sound architectural decisions, explain trade-offs clearly, and guide implementation across complex systems;
• Excellent communication skills and a team-player mindset;
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fully remote global team;
• Nice to have: Tokio proficiency, familiarity with agentic engineering tools and concepts, LLMs, MCP APIs, AI-First IDEs such as Cursor and Claude Code, harness engineering, workflow automation, crypto enthusiasm.

• Competitive salary package;
• Flexible working hours;
• Remote work available;
• The role is open to candidates located in European time zones;
• Background checks are performed on all potential employees, and passing the check is a prerequisite to joining Keyrock;
• Positive and collaborative work environment.