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

- **Company:** Blockhouse Company, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Algorithmic Trading, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Code Review, Software Debugging, Linux, Python (Programming Language), Low Latency
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_0011cc0703e95c97ddc4ed036f1ac2a8

## About the Role

* Must have previous experience at a trading firm or building some kind of trading system at the professional level, side projects do not alone qualify
 * 2 to 5 years of production experience in C++ and Rust, with real depth in at least one and working fluency in the other
 * A track record of shipping low latency or performance sensitive trading systems
 * Strong grasp of concurrency, async programming, networking and performance trade offs on Linux
 * Comfort with Python and Go across tooling, gateways and research integration
 * The drive to lead, meaning you're ready to own objectives, direct others and make calls without waiting to be told, * Experience integrating crypto or equities exchange APIs
 * Background in market making, HFT or execution systems
 * Familiarity with margin, funding and portfolio accounting across venues
 * Experience running trading infrastructure in the cloud

## Description

This is a quant engineering role at its core, sitting between research and production and owning the path from a researcher's spec to a live signal trading real capital. You'll work directly with the founders and our quant researchers, and although the role is open to engineers with 2 to 5 years of experience, we expect you to step up quickly, setting objectives, writing specs, breaking work into tickets and guiding the rest of the engineering team with your judgment., * Turn research specs 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, from market data publishers and book feeds to the market making engine itself
 * Own exchange connectivity across crypto and traditional venues, 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 our cloud infrastructure with an existing senior engineer
 * Lead the engineering team day to day through specs, code review across our repos and onboarding of junior engineers