Senior Rust Engineer: DeFi

We are looking for

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.

What you will be doing

• 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.

Skills 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 process:

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 believe the most important aspect of our recruitment process is self-awareness: we are looking for people who have a clear understanding of themselves and what they are looking for in their professional career. That means that we expect to work with people who not only have the right skills, but who have also made the conscious decision to look for a company in our industry and with our characteristics and are willing to ask questions and learn in a context that may not be familiar to them.

Our offer

• A competitive salary package with exceptional variable compensation upside, including benefits that you choose and manage according to your needs and those of your family (car/bike, meal vouchers, health insurance, 25 days off, etc.). These benefits are dependent on your contract type and location.

• We are open to you having a B2B contract or a full time permanent position

• 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 who all receive stock options from the first year

• A ton of fun in a thriving and multicultural environment, with colleagues enjoying regular team building activities

• Monthly wellbeing allowance

• Professional development support

• Career growth plans

• Team building and social events (both remote and in person)

• Access to world class tools to do your job

• IT allowance to purchase the equipment you need to do your job

Keyrock offers you both a career and a large range of benefits that we will gladly discuss in the course of the application process.

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.