Senior Rust Engineer - High Frequency Trading (HFT)
Keyrock
Senior Rust Engineer - High Frequency Trading (HFT)
Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience and strong AWS knowledge to join its Capital Markets division. The role involves designing, building, and operating mission-critical low-latency trading systems in a fully remote, global team. Candidates with a passion for the Rust ecosystem and a proven track record in high-frequency trading environments will be at a significant advantage.
Senior Rust Engineer - High Frequency Trading (HFT)
Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience and strong AWS knowledge to join its Capital Markets division. The role involves designing, building, and operating mission-critical low-latency trading systems in a fully remote, global team. Candidates with a passion for the Rust ecosystem and a proven track record in high-frequency trading environments will be at a significant advantage.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimise low-latency, mission-critical trading systems
- Own key trading stack components end-to-end — from architecture through to production operation
- Collaborate closely with quants, traders, and engineers to deliver solutions that improve trading performance and resilience
- Maintain and evolve trading infrastructure with a focus on performance, stability, observability, and operational excellence
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across exchange connectivity, execution, and market data handling
- Drive engineering standards through technical leadership, code reviews, and mentoring
- Embrace agentic engineering principles: leverage AI-assisted workflows, drive automation of operational tasks, and help evolve the team's agentic tooling
- Contribute to functional, component, and production-readiness testing for critical trading components