Product Manager, High Frequency Trading

Location: Remote, local to regional Keyrock hub locations

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 partner with over 180 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from self-taught 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

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Manager to oversee our High-Frequency Trading (HFT) product vertical. This role is critical to our success, focusing on the discovery, design, and delivery of trading systems where every microsecond counts.

You will be responsible for driving the product strategy for our HFT systems, ensuring sub-millisecond latency and near-perfect uptime, while balancing aggressive performance goals with robust risk management and regulatory compliance. You will act as the crucial link between our elite trading teams and our world-class engineers, translating complex quantitative needs into a clear, actionable roadmap that directly impacts our P&L and market share.

Keyrock Product Managers are responsible for developing valuable and viable systems (& implicit services) that consider the voices of

Business & Commercial teams,
Trading & Research teams,
And Engineering builders.

The position requires a versatile skill set across these three competencies, enabling candidates to tackle research responsibilities with confidence.

Outcomes

Low-Latency System Leadership: Drive the focus, design, and continuous improvement of HFT systems, ensuring the achievement and maintenance of sub-millisecond latency for critical trading operations.
High-Availability Operations: Be accountable for achieving and maintaining 99.99% uptime for all critical trading systems and their underlying infrastructure, ensuring robust and reliable performance.
Commercial Impact & Strategy: Shape and drive product activities with a relentless focus on commercial impact, directly contributing to P&L, market share, and capital efficiency targets.
Continuous Product Innovation: Lead the discovery, design, and development of ongoing trading enhancements and risk monitoring tools, ensuring our systems maintain a competitive edge.
Strategic Roadmapping & Communication: Develop, own, and clearly communicate the product roadmap, ensuring tight alignment between traders, engineering, and business stakeholders on all projected work.
System Resilience & Validation: Oversee the rigorous stress-testing of trading systems and ensure their seamless integration into back-testing frameworks to validate performance and robustness.
Regulatory & Compliance Alignment: Define and integrate compliance and regulatory requirements into the product roadmap, ensuring all systems operate within legal and internal risk frameworks.
Market & Vendor Intelligence: Manage key relationships with data providers and exchanges while continuously scanning the competitive landscape to identify strategic threats and opportunities.
Stakeholder Nexus: Act as the central communication and management hub between traders, quants, engineers, and other business stakeholders, ensuring focus is maintained on delivering impact and value.

Essentials

Low-Latency Systems Experience: Demonstrable exposure to the product management or development of low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
Quantitative Acumen: Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to understand and discuss complex financial models and trading strategies.
Technical Proficiency: A deep technical understanding of the components of a modern electronic trading system, from market data ingestion to order execution.
Trading & Risk Management Exposure: Solid understanding of financial trading principles and sophisticated risk management practices in a high-stakes environment.
Proven Product Execution: A proven track record of translating complex business and quantitative needs into clear, actionable technology requirements for engineering teams.

Beneficial experience

Deep understanding of market microstructure, particularly within crypto markets.
A genuine passion for and deep interest in digital assets and crypto trading.
Experience with modern, agile product management methodologies with a focus on measuring and optimizing delivery efficiency.
A background in software development or infrastructure engineering, especially with real-time or high-performance systems.
Familiarity with the regulatory compliance landscape for financial markets.
Previous experience in the fintech sector, particularly with derivatives markets.

Our recruitment philosophy

We value self-awareness in our recruitment process. We seek people who understand themselves and their career goals. We're after those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Why Keyrock?

Be at the forefront of innovation in digital assets and AI.
Work on challenging problems with a direct impact on the business.
A competitive salary package, with various benefits depending on the method of engagement (employee or freelancer).
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

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.

Due to the nature of our business and external requirements, we perform background checks on all potential employees, passing which is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.

Product Manager, High Frequency Trading

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