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Senior Rust Engineer : DeFi

KeyrockLondon, England, United Kingdom

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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.

Rust Engineer : DeFi

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. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from DeFi natives to PhDs. Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Brussels, Singapore and Paris, and host regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight.

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

But we’re more than a service provider. We’re an initiator. We're pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for our algorithmic trading, and champions of its use in the industry. We support the growth of Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program. We upgrade ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols. And we push the industry's progress with our research and governance initiatives.

At Keyrock, we're not just envisioning the future of digital assets. We're actively building it.

Mission statement

An experienced Rust developer to support the growth of our infrastructure, which is based on an exciting and constantly evolving technology stack. You will be working in collaboration with our engineers, data scientists, and architects to plan and develop new features, integrate new liquidity sources and structure financial systems. As an important member of the engineering department, your mission would be to engage in technical discussions with the Architect to contribute with their vision and expertise for iterating the global architecture.

An ideal candidate has experience in developing low-latency trading systems, is passionate about algo trading and crypto, DeFi and is a low-level system thinker.

This role would suit an engineer looking for a challenge, at times you might be integrating with poorly documented APIs from protocols.

Job Description

Supporting the implementation, setup and deployment of trading algorithms. Signing off technical approach for a given use case.
Assisting the product managers on the planning of the implementation of a technical solution, being able to make trade-offs and technical decisions with a bigger roadmap in mind and within the guidelines of the engineering department.
Mentoring other Engineering members, participating actively in the code review of developers.
Reviewing performance metrics and data analysis to recognise weaknesses and find solutions to optimise our activities.
Ensuring that processes are well documented.

Background And Experience

At least 5 years of back end coding experience for example : C++, Rust, Go or Java

Experience with Rust is essential for this role

Familiarity or Interest with Trading

Familiarity with financial markets and trading algorithms in orderbooks

Outstanding written and verbal presentation skills

Nice To Have (none Essential)

A minimum of 1 year of relevant experience in DeFi, Web3 and / or a DAO

Familiarity with AWS

Experience with non EVM chains

The preference for this role is for the user to be based in the Europe time zone in line with the wider team.

Interview Proces

1st Stage is a short technical interview with the Hiring Manager

2nd stage : Tech Challenge

3rd Stage : Tech Challenge Debrief

4th Stage : Final meeting with the wider team

Offer

Our recruitment philosophy

We value self-awareness and powerful communication skills in our recruitment process. We seek fiercely passionate people who understand themselves and their career goals. We're after those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, acts with ownership and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Our offer

Competitive salary package

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

As an employer we are committed to building a positive and collaborative work environment. We welcome employees of all backgrounds, and 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 which is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.

https : / / keyrock.com / careers /

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

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