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Blockhouse

Rust Developer Intern (Summer 2026)

New York City AreafulltimeinternAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Join Blockhouse's engineering team as a Rust intern working on a production market-making engine that trades live capital across crypto exchanges. You'll optimize the core trading system, integrate new venues, build trader dashboards, and deploy infrastructure on GCP alongside founders and senior engineers.

What you'll do

  • Optimize and extend the Rust-based market-making engine for performance and new features
  • Integrate new cryptocurrency exchanges (CEX/DEX) with REST, WebSocket, and order lifecycle handling
  • Build and improve the internal trader dashboard with frontend and backend components
  • Deploy services to GCP infrastructure with observability and data pipeline support
  • Debug live trading systems using production logs and real market behavior
  • Collaborate with quantitative traders to implement strategy logic in production code

What they're looking for

  • Rust (production-level experience with non-trivial projects)
  • Concurrency and async programming
  • Linux/UNIX system administration
  • Debugging and performance profiling
  • Cryptocurrency exchange API integration
  • Frontend development (TypeScript, React)
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Market data and order book systems

Benefits

  • $2,000–$4,000/month based on experience
  • Health and other standard benefits included
  • Equity and PnL sharing available upon full-time conversion
  • NYC in-person with remote flexibility
  • Clear path to full-time role for strong performers
  • CPT/OPT support for international students
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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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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a non-trivial Rust project you've built. What concurrency or performance challenges did you face, and how did you solve them?
  • Have you integrated with REST or WebSocket APIs before? How would you approach normalizing market data from multiple crypto exchange venues with different formats?
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