Experienced Rust Engineer -- Trading Systems

Blockhouse•New York, NY

1d•Remote

About The Position

Blockhouse is a systematic crypto trading firm established in 2022, operating two live production strategies across centralized and decentralized perpetual venues, trading client capital. Their core market-making engine is built in Rust and is deployed in production across multiple venues. The firm is actively expanding its platform by integrating additional exchanges, refining execution, and developing operational infrastructure, including a trader dashboard, GCP environment, and observability systems. Blockhouse is a small, engineering-driven team where engineers collaborate directly with the founders and Head of Trading. This is a senior individual contributor position within the trading systems team, reporting to the Head of Trading. The role primarily involves extending the production Rust engine, writing production code daily, taking end-to-end ownership of significant system components, and elevating the team's technical standards through code review, design input, and mentorship of junior engineers. The successful candidate will be expected to navigate an existing codebase, identify high-impact improvements, deliver them incrementally to production, and enhance the platform's reliability and extensibility.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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