Quant Developer, Trading Systems (Rust and C++)

Blockhouse•New York, NY

7d•$110,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Blockhouse is hiring a quant engineer to work between research and production, owning the path from a researcher’s specification to a live signal trading real capital. The role works directly with the founders and quant researchers. It is open to engineers with 2 to 5 years of experience, with an expectation that the hire will quickly take ownership of objectives, write specifications, break work into tickets, and guide the engineering team. The position involves developing and optimizing low-latency trading components in C++ and Rust, implementing research signals, owning exchange connectivity, and hardening production systems. The hire will also co-lead Blockhouse’s GCP and Kubernetes infrastructure with an existing senior engineer and lead day-to-day engineering work through specifications, code reviews, and onboarding junior engineers.

Requirements

2 to 5 years of production experience in C++ and Rust, with deep expertise in at least one and working fluency in the other.
Track record of shipping low-latency or performance-sensitive systems.
Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous programming, networking, and performance trade-offs on Linux.
Comfort with Python and Go across tooling, gateways, and research integration.
Readiness to own objectives, direct others, and make decisions independently.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating crypto or equities exchange APIs.
Background in market making, high-frequency trading, or execution systems.
Familiarity with margin, funding, and portfolio accounting across venues.
Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Redpanda, or ClickHouse.

Responsibilities

Turn research specifications into production signals, including basis and FX pairs, nowcast fits, index futures pricing, and momentum.
Build and optimize low-latency components in C++ and Rust, including market data publishers, book feeds on Aeron, and the market-making engine.
Own exchange connectivity across centralized crypto exchanges and traditional finance venues such as Alpaca and IBKR, covering order books, rate-limit pacing, funding and borrow data, and order reconciliation.
Debug and harden production systems, including memory profiling, reconnect and heartbeat logic, and crash investigation.
Co-lead GCP and Kubernetes infrastructure with an existing senior engineer.
Lead the engineering team day to day through specifications, code reviews across repositories, and onboarding junior engineers.
Set objectives, break work into tickets, and guide the engineering team with sound judgment.