Technical Lead (Rust)

About Keyrock

Tech Lead

Tech Lead

Head of Engineering (HoE)

Head of Product (HoP) -

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

• 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.

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 (JavaScript/TypeScript) 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 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
• Experience in fast-paced, dynamic financial or fintech environments is highly desirable
• We would like the successful candidate to be based in the UK or Europe.
• Remote and flexible work options are available.

Soft Skills & Competencies

• 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.
• We would like the successful candidate to be based in the UK or Europe.
• Remote and flexible work options are available.
• Our recruitment philosophy
• We value self-awareness in our recruitment process.
• We seek 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, 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
• As an employer we are committed to build 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 which is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.
• https://keyrock.com/careers/