Rust Developer Intern (Spring 2026)
About The Position
Blockhouse is a systematic crypto trading firm founded in 2022, running two live production strategies across CEXs and perps DEXs, trading real client capital. Their core market-making engine is written in Rust and is actively being extended by adding new exchanges, tightening execution, and building out the operational layer around it (trader dashboard, GCP infrastructure, observability). The company is small, engineering-driven, and every hire works directly with the founders, Head of Trading, and senior quants. The intern will work directly on the Rust trading engine alongside the Head of Trading. The work spans low-latency systems (optimizing the core engine, integrating new venues, improving execution logic) and the production infrastructure around it (trader dashboard frontend/backend, GCP services). This is not a sandboxed research role; the intern's code ships to production and trades live capital.
Requirements
- Solid Rust experience — you've built something non-trivial, not just followed a tutorial
- Comfortable in Linux/UNIX environments
- Strong grasp of concurrency, async, and performance tradeoffs
- Clean, well-tested code, fluent with standard debugging workflows
Nice To Haves
- Crypto exchange API experience (CEX or DEX integrations)
- Frontend/backend work (TypeScript, React, or similar)
- GCP or other cloud infrastructure exposure
- Experience with market data, order books, or execution systems
- Python for tooling, testing, or research integration
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, latency sensitivity)
Responsibilities
- Optimize and extend our existing Rust market-making engine
- Integrate new CEX and DEX venues — REST, WebSocket, order lifecycle, market data normalization
- Build and improve the internal trader dashboard (frontend + backend integrations)
- Hook services into our GCP infrastructure — deployment, observability, data pipelines
- Debug live systems against real trading logs and production behavior
- Collaborate with quants to translate strategy logic into production code
Benefits
- Benefits included
- Equity and strategy PnL share available on conversion to full-time
- Clear, meritocratic path to a full-time offer
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
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