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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
Company: Blockhouse
Location: Remote (US time zones required); NYC in-person or hybrid preferred
Type: Full-time
Compensation: $110,000–$160,000 base, commensurate with experience. Equity grant and strategy PnL share included. Full benefits.
Blockhouse is a systematic crypto trading firm operating two live production strategies across centralized and decentralized perpetual venues, trading client capital. The firm was founded in 2022.
Our core market-making engine is built in Rust and is deployed in production across multiple venues. We are actively extending the platform — integrating additional exchanges, refining execution, and developing the surrounding operational infrastructure, including our trader dashboard, GCP environment, and observability systems. Blockhouse is a small, engineering-driven team, and engineers work directly with the founders and Head of Trading.
This is a senior individual contributor position on our trading systems team, reporting into the Head of Trading. The role is focused on extending our production Rust engine: writing production code daily, owning meaningful components of the system end-to-end, and raising the technical standard of the team through code review, design input, and mentorship of junior engineers.
We are not looking to rebuild the platform. Our system is operational and trades real capital today. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to navigate an existing codebase, identify high-impact improvements, deliver them to production incrementally, and improve the reliability and extensibility of the platform over time.
Extend and optimize the Rust trading engine, with emphasis on performance, reliability, and extensibility
Integrate new centralized and decentralized venues and harden existing integrations
Contribute to the ongoing GCP migration, including observability, deployment, and data infrastructure
Partner with the Head of Trading and quantitative researchers to translate strategy requirements into production systems
Uphold and improve engineering standards through code review, design feedback, and mentorship
Help establish and maintain team practices around testing, CI, and on-call operations
2–5 years of production Rust experience, or equivalent production experience in a comparable systems language (C++, Go) with demonstrated Rust proficiency
Proven track record of delivering low-latency or performance-sensitive systems in production
Strong command of concurrency, asynchronous programming, networking, and performance trade-offs
Proficiency in Linux/UNIX environments and standard debugging and profiling tooling
Demonstrated pragmatism: a preference for incremental improvement over rewrites, and sound judgment on where to invest engineering effort
Experience integrating with centralized or decentralized crypto exchange APIs
Background in market making, execution systems, or high-frequency trading infrastructure
Working experience with Google Cloud Platform
Familiarity with internal tooling development (TypeScript, React) for trader- or operator-facing interfaces
Python proficiency for tooling, testing, or research integration
Prior experience mentoring or informally leading engineers
Substantive ownership of a production trading system with direct impact on firm PnL
Close working relationship with the founding team, Head of Trading, and quantitative staff
Meaningful equity participation and strategy PnL share
Live trading environment with real capital at stake and a high engineering bar