Keyrock is seeking a Technical Lead (Rust) to bridge business objectives with technical execution in its Service Market Making Business Unit. This senior role blends hands-on development, architectural guidance, and team leadership to ensure systems are reliable, performant, and aligned with strategic goals.
What You'll Do
- Drive Delivery and Alignment: 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.
- Balance Code and Leadership: Contribute directly through coding, while also focusing on architecture design, peer reviews, and cross-functional communication.
- Mentor and Elevate Engineers: Provide structured feedback through design and code reviews, support skill development, and empower junior and mid-level engineers to take ownership.
- Technical Leadership: Guide system design, ensure scalability and resilience, and optimise performance across applications and infrastructure.
- Maintain Standards: Uphold engineering best practices, enforce coding guidelines, and partner with QA to embed automation and validation in the delivery pipeline.
- Codebase Health: Manage technical debt, lead refactoring initiatives, and ensure long-term maintainability and operational excellence.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and QA engineers to define scope, refine requirements, and plan delivery in a transparent and predictable manner.
- Risk Management: Anticipate technical risks, dependencies, and trade-offs early, and propose mitigations to safeguard delivery timelines.
What We're Looking For
- 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
- 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 GitOps workflows to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployments
- Solid command of software engineering best practices, including Agile methodologies, DevOps principles and end-to-end CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of DevSecFinOps 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
Nice to Have
- Working knowledge of Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript) and Python is an advantage
- Experience in fast-paced, dynamic financial or fintech environments is highly desirable
Technical Stack
- Rust
- Node.js
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- GitOps
- CI/CD
- DevSecFinOps
- Agile
- real-time data pipelines
- high-concurrency systems
- low-latency trading systems
Team & Environment
- Over 180 team members globally
- Remote-first with hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore
- Diverse team from 42 nationalities, including DeFi natives and PhDs
- Reports to the Head of Engineering
- Ownership & Reliability – Take full responsibility for your work. Deliver high-quality service, meet deadlines, and follow through on commitments. Anticipate and proactively address potential issues before they arise.
- Initiative & Problem-Solving – Approach challenges with a problem-solving entrepreneurial mindset. Make sound, independent judgments and take the initiative to drive solutions rather than waiting for instructions.
- Operational Diligence – Respond strategically to technical and operational challenges, ensuring robust and reliable trading infrastructure while instilling confidence in the team’s processes.
- Curiosity & Growth Mindset – Continuously seek to improve your technical skills and knowledge. Stay ahead of industry trends and take the initiative to practice and explore new technologies that excite you.
- Excellent Communication Skills with a team player mindset, collaborating within a fully remote global team.
- Self-awareness in recruitment: seeking people who understand themselves and their career goals
- Driven, collaborative, and focused on delivering solid, scalable outcomes
- Inclusive, diverse, non-discriminating environment
- Ment-based hiring, rewarding, and promotion
Benefits & Compensation
- 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
- Opportunity to work remotely
- The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence
- Inclusive, diverse and non-discriminating work environment
- Hiring, rewarding and promoting entirely based on merit and performance
- Regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight
Work Mode
- Remote and flexible work options are available
- Local-country engagement in UK and Europe
We welcome employees of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, creed and sexual orientation. We hire, reward and promote entirely based on merit and performance.
