Mission Statement
The Tech Lead plays a pivotal role in bridging business objectives with technical execution
. This role is not purely managerial nor solely individual contributor, but a hybrid position that combines hands‑on engineering
, architectural leadership
, and team enablement
. A Tech Lead ensures delivery excellence by actively contributing to the codebase, guiding the team technically, and aligning execution with long‑term strategic goals.
At Keyrock, the Tech Lead is a senior technical contributor who drives the implementation and delivery of engineering initiatives within their Business Unit. The Tech Lead is accountable for technical execution and delivery quality
, ensuring that systems are built to high standards of reliability, performance, and maintainability. While the Head of Engineering (HoE) focuses on strategic alignment – ensuring that engineering outcomes meet the broader objectives agreed with the Head of Product (HoP) – the Tech Lead operates as the executional deputy
, translating those strategic objectives into code, architecture, and delivery outcomes.
- Act as the technical point of accountability for the Service Market Making Business Unit.
- Balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery, ensuring systems are built to last while meeting immediate needs.
- Champion collaboration across teams, ensuring alignment between product, design, QA, and engineering.
- Inspire and develop engineers through mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance, fostering growth and autonomy within the team.
- Partner with the Head of Engineering to own delivery of entire work‑streams, ensuring architecture and engineering decisions align with both immediate requirements and business strategy.
- Contribute directly through coding while also focusing on architecture design, peer reviews, and cross‑functional communication.
- Provide structured feedback through design and code reviews, support skill development, and empower junior and mid‑level engineers to take ownership.
- Guide system design, ensure scalability and resilience, and optimise performance across applications and infrastructure.
- Uphold engineering best practices, enforce coding guidelines, and partner with QA to embed automation and validation in the delivery pipeline.
- Manage technical debt, lead refactoring initiatives, and ensure long‑term maintainability and operational excellence.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and QA engineers to define scope, refine requirements, and plan delivery in a transparent and predictable manner.
- Anticipate technical risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs early, and propose mitigations to safeguard delivery timelines.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years in a Technical Leadership position guiding teams, shaping architecture, and driving delivery of complex projects.
- Expertise in architecting and maintaining high‑concurrency, low‑latency trading systems at scale.
- Advanced proficiency in Rust; working knowledge of Node.js (JavaScript/Type Script) and Python is an advantage.
- Experience with data‑intensive architectures and real‑time data pipelines.
- Deployment and optimisation of ultra‑low‑latency workloads in AWS environments.
- Containerisation experience and management of Kubernetes clusters in production.
- Familiarity with Git Ops workflows to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployments.
- Solid command of software engineering best practices, including Agile methodologies, Dev Ops principles and end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Dev Sec Fin Ops principles to embed security, compliance and cost‑governance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Leadership of engineering teams, with a commitment to fostering collaboration, mentorship and continuous professional growth.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, able to partner effectively with Product, Architecture, Quantitative Research and Operations.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving mindset, with a passion for building scalable, reliable and secure systems.
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