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Blockhouse

Experienced Rust Engineer -- Trading Systems

New York City Area$110k–$160kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Blockhouse, a systematic crypto trading firm, seeks an experienced Rust engineer to extend and optimize its production trading engine. You'll own meaningful system components, integrate new exchanges, and mentor junior engineers while working directly with founders and the Head of Trading.

What you'll do

  • Extend and optimize the Rust trading engine for performance, reliability, and extensibility
  • Integrate new centralized and decentralized exchange venues and harden existing integrations
  • Contribute to GCP migration including observability, deployment, and data infrastructure
  • Translate strategy requirements from traders and researchers into production systems
  • Improve engineering standards through code review, design feedback, and junior engineer mentorship
  • Establish and maintain team practices for testing, CI/CD, and on-call operations

What they're looking for

  • Rust (2–5 years production experience)
  • Low-latency and performance-sensitive systems
  • Concurrency and asynchronous programming
  • Linux/UNIX environments and debugging/profiling tools
  • Networking and system design
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Crypto exchange API integration
  • Python or TypeScript for tooling

Benefits

  • Base salary $110,000–$160,000 plus equity grant
  • Strategy PnL share participation
  • Full benefits package
  • Remote flexibility (US time zones) with NYC hybrid option
  • Direct collaboration with founding team and Head of Trading
  • Substantive ownership of live production trading systems
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Blockhouse

Blockhouse is a systematic crypto trading firm that develops and operates a production-grade trading engine for market-making and live capital deployment across cryptocurrency exchanges. The company is hiring experienced Rust engineers and interns to optimize its core trading systems, integrate new exchanges, build trading infrastructure, and work directly with founders and trading leadership.

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  • Walk us through a production system you've built or significantly contributed to in Rust (or C++/Go). What were the key performance bottlenecks, and how did you address them?
  • Describe your experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency in Rust. How have you debugged or optimized concurrent systems under latency constraints?
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