Senior Full Stack Web Engineer - Trading

Senior Full Stack Web Engineer - Trading

Keyrock, City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Since our beginnings in 2017, Keyrock has grown to be a leading change‑maker in the digital asset space, renowned for partnerships and innovation. With over 200 team members across 42 nationalities and hubs in London, Brussels, Singapore, and Paris, we operate predominantly remote and host regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight.

We trade on more than 80 exchanges and work with a wide array of asset issuers. As a market maker, our expertise spans market making, options trading, high‑frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks, as well as digital‑asset management. We are actively building the future of digital assets through innovation, technology, research, and governance initiatives.

We are seeking a Full Stack Web Engineer with a strong sense of UI/UX design and a proven track record in the financial services industry. Experience in the crypto or digital‑asset domain is highly valued. You will work across the entire technology stack—from data models and APIs to interactive, high‑performance interfaces—building and refining products that deliver tangible business value. You are driven by a product mindset, validating ideas early and evolving them from functional to exceptional.

You are language‑agnostic, pragmatic in your technical choices, and unafraid to experiment when it serves the end user.

• Deliver end‑to‑end product features, from backend APIs and data models to engaging, responsive UI components.
• Review and validate scalable software architectures, ensuring maintainability, reliability, and secure integrations across all layers.
• Champion good engineering practices, including code reviews, automated testing, documentation, and CI/CD workflows.
• Optimise performance across the stack through effective debugging, profiling, and system tuning.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex business and user requirements into elegant, performant solutions.
• Maintain consistent operational hygiene through clear documentation, smooth migrations, and predictable deployments.
• Explore and share emerging technologies, with particular interest in Rust, Web Assembly, and modern API frameworks.

• Proven experience building full‑stack web applications with strong command of both frontend and backend principles.
• Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (Vue, React, or similar) and design systems or component libraries such as Shadcn.
• Experience developing robust backend services, ideally using Rust, or familiarity with typed backend languages.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, RESTful API design, and performance optimisation in web contexts.
• Hands‑on experience with relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases, schema design, and query optimisation.
• Familiarity with Git‑based workflows, continuous integration, and automated testing practices.
• Strong debugging, problem‑solving, and analytical skills.
• A product‑oriented mindset, balancing quality, speed, and user impact effectively.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a proactive attitude toward improving systems and team dynamics.
• Product‑oriented mindset with the ability to focus on delivering value, validate early, and progressively refine solutions.

• Exposure to data‑intensive, governance‑driven, or fintech/crypto applications, and curiosity for Rust or distributed systems.
• Awareness of secure coding practices, authentication/authorisation models (OAuth2, OpenID Connect).
• Knowledge of data visualisation libraries (D3.js, Recharts, or similar).
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Faro, or Datadog) and comfort instrumenting metrics, logs, and traces.
• Ability to design applications with self‑observability in mind (e.g., health endpoints, tracing IDs, telemetry propagation).
• Exposure to Kubernetes, containerised environments, and Helm‑based deployments.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab CI) and infrastructure‑as‑code workflows.
• Experience working in cloud‑native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and awareness of…