Keyrock

Product Manager, High-Frequency Trading

Keyrock

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇧🇪 Belgium

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

RustWeb3

About the role

  • Drive product strategy, discovery, design and delivery for Keyrock's High-Frequency Trading (HFT) product vertical.
  • Ensure sub-millisecond latency for critical trading operations and maintain near-perfect uptime (99.99%) for critical trading systems.
  • Balance aggressive performance goals with robust risk management and regulatory compliance.
  • Act as the crucial link between trading/research teams and engineering, translating quantitative needs into actionable roadmaps.
  • Shape product activities with a relentless focus on commercial impact, P&L, market share, and capital efficiency targets.
  • Lead discovery, design, and development of trading enhancements and risk monitoring tools to maintain competitive edge.
  • Develop, own, and communicate the product roadmap to align traders, engineering, and business stakeholders.
  • Oversee rigorous stress-testing and integration into back-testing frameworks to validate performance and resilience.
  • Manage relationships with data providers, exchanges, and continuously scan competitive landscape for threats and opportunities.
  • Serve as central communication hub among traders, quants, engineers, and other business stakeholders to deliver impact and value.

Requirements

  • Demonstrable exposure to the product management or development of low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills; ability to understand and discuss complex financial models and trading strategies.
  • Deep technical understanding of components of modern electronic trading systems (market data ingestion to order execution).
  • Solid understanding of financial trading principles and sophisticated risk management practices.
  • Proven track record of translating complex business and quantitative needs into clear, actionable technology requirements for engineering teams.
  • Experience as a Product Manager within a trading environment (specific years requested on application form but not specified in posting).
  • Experience with market microstructure, particularly within crypto markets (beneficial).
  • Passion for digital assets and crypto trading (beneficial).
  • Experience with modern, agile product management methodologies and measuring/optimizing delivery efficiency (beneficial).
  • Background in software development or infrastructure engineering, especially with real-time or high-performance systems (beneficial).
  • Familiarity with the regulatory compliance landscape for financial markets (beneficial).
  • Previous experience in the fintech sector, particularly with derivatives markets (beneficial).