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Keyrock is seeking Rust Engineers to develop low-latency trading systems for cryptocurrency markets. Responsibilities include building execution engines and navigating digital asset exchanges.
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🦀 Calling All Rust Pioneers: Join the Keyrock Global Talent Pool 🦀

Are you a Rust enthusiast with a passion for trading?

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 200 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 as well as digital asset management. Keyrock is looking to expand and establish itself as a full-service financial institution through both organic innovation and inorganic growth.

But we’re more than a service provider. We’re an initiator. We're pioneers in adopting the Rust Programming language for our algorithmic trading systems, 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.

Keyrock isn’t just using Rust; we are pioneers of it in the algorithmic trading world. From high-frequency options trading to expanding DeFi ecosystems, our stack is built for speed, safety, and scalability. Keyrock has been using Rust in production since 2020.

We are growing fast and always looking for the best Rust, C++, and C Engineers to help us build the future of digital assets. Even if you aren't ready to switch roles today, we want to connect with the builders who are as obsessed with low-latency and systems engineering as we are.

What We Look For:

We value technical mastery and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are particularly interested in engineers with experience or a strong interest in:

  • Market Making & HFT: Building low-latency execution engines.

  • Exchange Connectivity: Navigating the complexities of global digital asset exchanges.

  • Crypto & DeFi: Injecting liquidity into the next generation of protocols.

  • Systems Programming: A deep love for memory safety, concurrency, and performance optimization.

About Keyrock

Since 2017, Keyrock has grown to 200+ team members across 42 nationalities. We are a leading market maker active on 80+ exchanges. We offer a remote-first culture, flexible hours, and the autonomy to treat your work like your own startup.

Join a team where ownership is the standard and Rust is the language of choice. Let’s build the future of liquidity together.

Top Skills

C
C++
Rust

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