Rust Engineer - Platform Trading

Rust Engineer - Platform Trading

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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. Today, we rock with over 200 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, 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. 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.

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

Mission statement

As a Platform Backend Engineer (Rust) at Keyrock, you will drive the development and maintenance of the backoffice and trading data platform systems at the core of our organisation. We are looking for a hands‑on engineer with experience in building scalable, resilient, and high‑performance systems, eager to own complex infrastructure implementation. The ideal candidate thrives in fast‑paced environments, collaborates with cross‑functional teams, and applies a product‑centric mindset to solve technical challenges that directly impact our trading and risk capabilities.

Job Description

• Design, build, and maintain high‑performance backend services and APIs using Rust, ensuring low latency and high availability for critical trading data platforms.
• Apply strong systems engineering fundamentals: concurrency, memory management, networking, serialization, observability, and performance tuning.
• Integrate live trading operations (exchanges/DeFi) with backoffice systems, automating workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Deploy and manage services in cloud‑native environments, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform for infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Maintain GitOps‑driven workflows, robust CI/CD pipelines and deep system observability (logging, metrics, tracing) for rapid incident response.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies (SQL/NoSQL) in a high‑volume financial environment.
• Engineer solutions with a “Security‑First” mindset, ensuring compliance standards and secure handling of sensitive financial data.
• Partner with Product Managers, Risk teams and other engineers to translate business requirements into reliable technical specifications.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to architectural discussions, and mentor fellow engineers.
• Stay updated on emerging trends in the Rust ecosystem, cloud infrastructure and blockchain technologies to continuously refine platform capabilities.

Background And Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience building and maintaining data‑intensive, large‑scale, high‑performance trading data platforms.
• Strong expertise in Rust (or C++), Python and TypeScript for system development and automation in the financial services industry.
• Good understanding of data engineering principles, including data modeling, ETL pipelines, and stream processing.
• Experience with financial services data workflows, including trading, middle office and back office operations.
• Extensive experience in cloud‑native architectures, with proficiency in AWS.
• Proficiency in GitOps tools and methodologies for infrastructure automation and deployment.
• Strong background in DevSecFinOps, ensuring compliance, security and cost efficiency across the development lifecycle.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, IaC and monitoring tools.

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 look for those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit is a crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, action‑oriented and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Our offer

• A 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 this is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.

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Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology