Ofertas de empleo en Keyrock

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• Publicada7 sept.

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Head of Engineering - Trading / Market Making Services

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 and Singapore, 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

As the Head of Engineering at Keyrock, you will be responsible for leading our engineering team in the development and maintenance of our trading systems for the core Market Making Services team. We are seeking an experienced individual who thrives in fast-paced environments and possesses a deep understanding of building scalable, resilient, and performant trading systems. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing people, fostering a collaborative work environment, and driving product-centric initiatives.

Job Description

• Lead and manage a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Drive the design, development, and maintenance of high-concurrency, high-performance trading systems.
• Collaborate closely with product management to align engineering efforts with product goals and roadmap.
• Implement and enforce best practices in software development, including code reviews, testing methodologies, and deployment strategies.
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our systems by implementing robust architectures and engineering practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with System Architect and other Engineering managers to align with our company-wide technical strategy.
  
  

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field experience.
• Proven experience building and maintaining high-concurrency, high-performance, low-latency trading systems.
• Strong proficiency in development and architecture of Rust systems. Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript) and Python are nice to have.
• Proficient in data-intensive systems.
• Proven experience with AWS, Docker
• Experience managing and leading engineering teams, with a focus on fostering collaboration and professional growth.
• Deep understanding of software engineering best practices, including agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for building scalable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Extensive expertise in finance and trading within the cryptocurrency sector.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment within the financial industry is a plus.
  
  

• 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
  
  

• Flexibilidad horariaSí
• Nivel de experiencia---
• Tipo de contratoA tiempo completo
• Publicada1 sept.

Teletrabajo API Python Git REST Jira QA gRPC

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

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Automation Engineer to lead the development and maintenance of automation systems that validate our critical business processes and drive measurable quality across the organisation. The ideal candidate will play a key role in building automated test coverage, performance monitoring, and deployment validation pipelines, while also ensuring the broader QA framework is effectively adopted across teams. The candidate will be focused on building out these automated testing frameworks for cryptocurrency market making technology, with inherent high availability and quality standards. Familiarity with similar systems will be helpful.

This role is highly cross-functional: you will collaborate with product, engineering, and delivery to implement best practices that support scalable, reliable systems.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

You will report to a Delivery Manager, and be guided by a QA Capability Lead to align practices across the business:

• Design, implement, and maintain automation frameworks for validating end-to-end business processes and critical system functions.
• Develop test strategies that support key QA framework KPIs, including coverage of critical business logic, process adherence, change failure rates, and performance monitoring.
• Build and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe releases.
• Partner with Product and Delivery Managers to drive adoption of standard QA processes across teams.
• Support the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation for critical business functions and features.
• Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure production stability and fast incident response.
• Analyse trends in deployment success/failures and performance degradations to proactively improve system quality.
• Track and report progress on quality metrics and KPIs to stakeholders.
• Contribute to operational runbooks for incident response and system recovery.
• Mentor engineers and QA team members on automation and testing best practices.
  
  

• Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks (backend and functional).
• Proficiency with modern automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Strong understanding of QA frameworks and standard processes (process adherence, test coverage, KPI-driven quality tracking).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
• Understanding & monitoring of unit testing coverage.
• Familiarity with API testing and backend validation (REST, gRPC).
• Strong ability to link tests to business-critical functionality and risk-based coverage.
• Solid knowledge of performance monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Datadog, Grafana) and production health monitoring.
• Strong experience with version control (Git) and issue tracking (Jira, Shortcut).
• Incident management and root cause analysis (Change Failure Rate, MTTR).
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to drive documentation and traceability efforts for critical functionality.
• Familiarity with test management tools (Testmo, TestRail) and QA reporting.
• Business analysis skills to support identifying critical business logic.
• Self-starter with excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Familiarity with UI testing and web browser automation
• An interest in the cryptocurrency industry and market making is a plus.
  
  

• 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