Algorithm Developer Rust

Keyrock was founded in 2017 and has quickly grown from 3 to over 100 people today. As an industry recognized liquidity provider and market maker, Keyrock is a leading European creator of algorithmic trading technology in the digital asset space. With VC backing and a constantly expanding global client base, Keyrock is one of Belgium’s fastest-growing fintech companies.

We’re currently active on over 80 exchanges and count numerous marketplaces and asset issuers among our clients, including some of the best-known companies in the digital assets space.

Keyrock's beating heart is its technical team filled with software engineers, digital scientists and academics, who themselves are supported by university professors, industry-leading experts and a strong management team. Over the years Keyrock has become a company that is both idealistic and practical.

Read more about our commitment to Rust technology in our Rust Foundation Membership spotlight:

We are looking for:

Your mission would be to develop new features, integrate thirty party APIs, support the development of trading algorithms and propose improvements to our current infrastructure. An ideal candidate has experience in developing low-latency trading systems, is passionate about algo trading and crypto and is a low-level system thinker.

This job opening for Rust Developer in the Options Business Unit, for the Americas timezone.

Job Description

• Building internal and external tools to support Keyrock trading activities
• Integrating the APIs of cryptocurrency exchanges, banks and brokers to the Keyrock infrastructure
• Setup and deployment of algorithms
• Implementing financial logic on multiple Keyrock microservices
  

Background And Experience

• Experience working with Rust Programming
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Familiarity with functional or component testing of services
• Experience building REST and Websocket API clients
• Basic understanding of how to sign an encrypted request
• Ideally, experience building clients that consume streaming data
• Deep understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, asset loading, caching, REST, etc)
• Basic understanding of the financial market, order books and trading
• Ideally, previous experience interacting with crypto exchanges APIs
• Knowledge of Node.js on top of Rust is a strong plus.
• Experience in development of options trading systems would be highly desirable
  

Competences and personality

• Team player
• Understand Unix systems
• Capable of having a helicopter view to understand trading strategies
• Willingness to make suggestions and ability to communicate effectively - especially when encountering unfamiliar contexts where clarification is required
  

Recruitment process

• Initial HR interview
• Technical +Experience based Interview with Head of Algorithm Development and Senior Algorithm Engineer
• Technical challenge (home-work type, it is neither a live coding challenge nor pair programming)
• Challenge debrief (a discussion where you present your solution, guide us through your thought process and receive feedback)
• Offer