Senior Rust Backend Developer, Keyrock
Cryptocurrency market makers
Job no longer available
Cryptocurrency market makers
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable the adoption of tokenised economies.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3 years of professional experience in programming
- Rust
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- A backend developer to support the growth of our infrastructure and maintain, which is based on an exciting and constantly evolving technology stack
- 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
- 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
Application process
- 1) Initial HR interview
- 2) Technical +Experience based Interview with Head of Algorithm Development and Senior Algorithm Engineer
- 3) Technical challenge (home-work type, it is neither a live coding challenge nor pair programming)
- 4) Challenge debrief (a discussion where you present your solution, guide us through your thought process and receive feedback)
- 5) Interview with CTO
- Our recruitment process typically lasts 3-6 weeks (largely depending on how much time candidate needs for the recruitment task)
Our take
Digital assets and cryptocurrencies have huge potential; but the fragmented nature of the space, atop a lack of regulated infrastructure, results in poor liquidity – discouraging their adoption. Keyrock deploys scalable, adaptive algorithms for its clients to create unique financial markets for digital assets, an integral part of bringing liquidity to the space.
Keyrock is a leading global liquidity partner for digital assets, securing this position through a focus on data excellence and scalability. The company offers market making services, building the financial foundation for token economies, alongside offering businesses and individuals access to vetted digital asset spot markets.
Keyrock has seen substantial investment and support from industry experts, allowing it to accelerate development. It has leveraged funding to scale tool development and accelerate its search for regulatory licenses across Europe, Singapore, and the US, and in 2026 acquired fija in order to grow its onchain reach.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
85% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2022
$72m
SERIES B
Oct 2020
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunity to work remotely
- Stock options from the first year
- Thriving and multicultural environment
- Regular team building activities
Company HQ
Kastelijn, Elsene, Brussel
Leadership
Kevin de Patoul
(CEO & Co-founder)Former Senior Consultant at Roland Berger. Previously a Quantitative Research Intern at Degroof Petercam.
Jeremy De Groodt
(CTO & Co-founder)Former Head Of Software Development at Eyecone. Founded Nibster. Previously a Hardware and Software Developer at Securandco.
Juan David Mendieta Villegas
(Co-founder)Co-Founded Elium. Co-founder and former CTO of Kiron Open Higher Education. Previously a Strategy Consultant at Stratco.
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