VP of Engineering (remote possible)

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Keyrock is expanding!

Keyrock was founded in 2017 and has quickly grown from 3 to over 65 people today, half of which work remotely around the globe. As an industry recognized liquidity provider and market maker, Keyrock is a leading European creator of algorithmic trading technology in the digital asset space. With VC backing and a constantly expanding global client base, Keyrock is one of Belgium’s fastest-growing fintech companies.

We’re currently active on over 80 exchanges and count numerous marketplaces and asset issuers among our clients, including some of the best-known companies in the crypto space.

Keyrock’s beating heart is its technical team filled with software engineers, digital scientists and PhDs, who themselves are supported by university professors, industry-leading experts and a strong management team. Over the years Keyrock has become a company that is both idealistic and practical.

We Are Looking For

We’re looking for a Vice President (VP) of Engineering with experience managing agile development teams. Our VP of Engineering will be responsible for ensuring that products meet design requirements and deliver a consistent experience for users. You’ll be managing an entire team of engineers and developers, collaborating with the product managers, as well as guiding the company’s product vision and maintaining compliance with quality standards. If you thrive at delivering quality releases on schedule, are excellent communicator and are deeply passionate about driving right culture, developing people and building teams that last - you will feel at home at Keyrock. Great candidate knows how to spot a brilliant engineer in a recruitment process, turn junior one over time into a domain expert or technology leader and build and carry out efficient, goal-oriented, fast software delivery processes.

Job Description

Leadership

• Leading the team through management and mentorship
• Ensuring appropriate balance between high performance culture and wellness of the team
  

Recruitment & Talent Development

• Recruiting world‐class engineering talent and participate in the process, including attracting, screening, and closing high-caliber candidates.
• Building, developing and managing every seniority level in the engineering team
• Organizing necessary training and education for the engineers
  

Process

• Developing procedures to ensure that quality standards are consistently met
• Recommending new technology and ideas to improve sprints and efficiency
• Managing the Tech Department budget
• Leading research and development to bring new products and services to the market
• Process orientedness - highly organized around priorities, velocity, quality and meeting deadlines
• Building cross-department relationships centered on executing company strategy
  

Delivery

• Designing, implementation, and monitoring of all operations and key performance metrics/operational efficiency for the engineering team.
• Understanding and collaborating on the complete product lifecycle from concept to execution.
• Planning and designing new products and services; ensuring product vision is executed with operational excellenceMaking sure the engineers are maintaining the desired level of quality and standards
• Coordinating the work of engineers with other departments within the organization, including finance, marketing, production, and others
• Challenging the status-quo - ensuring that we do not just blindly continue whatever was done before but improve and bring new ways of working and delivering
• Being hands on whenever their input or positive example is required (including code reviews, bugs squashing etc.)
• Strategic thinking and ability to plan and execute upon it robustly
• Acting as an enabler a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and excellence
• Participate in strategic planning meetings with product management, architecture and design
• Contribute to technical engineering designs, resource management and implementations
  

Background and experience

• Experience working with both software development and algorithmic trading
• Experience managing a distributed team
• Proven success working closely with Product Management, contributing to the product strategy and helping to successfully deliver on the product roadmap
• Extensive experience in working with stakeholders to create hiring strategies to develop quality teams.
• Experience in recruiting engineers and contributors.
  

Competences and personality

• Team player
• Strong project management and multitasking skills
• Able to think strategically and see the big picture
• Strong verbal, visual, and written communication skills with the ability to explain approach to all levels in the organization including key stakeholders
• Strong organizational leadership skills.
• Must be knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management.
• Capable of having a helicopter view to understand trading strategies
• Willing to make suggestions and ability to communicate effectively - especially when encountering unfamiliar contexts where clarification is required
• Accurate and attentive to detail
• Professional demeanor
• Works efficiently across distributed teams
• Aptitude for learning new technologies and concepts
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to translate customer and business needs into technical solutions
• The natural ability to be a champion for change
  

Our recruitment philosophy

We believe the most important aspect of our recruitment process is self-awareness: we are looking for people who have a clear understanding of themselves and what they are looking for in their professional career. That means that we expect to work with people who not only have the right skills, but who have also made the conscious decision to look for a company in our industry and with our characteristics and are willing to ask questions and learn in a context that may not be familiar to them.

Our offer

• A competitive salary package, including benefits that you choose and manage according to your needs and those of your family (car/bike, meal vouchers, phone and internet subscription, health insurance, 25 days off, etc.)
• Complete 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 who all receive stock options from the first year
• A ton of fun in a thriving and multicultural environment, with colleagues enjoying regular team building activities
  

Keyrock offers you both a career and a large range of benefits that we will gladly discuss in the course of the application process.

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.