Experienced Rust Engineer -- Trading Systems

EXPERIENCED RUST ENGINEER – TRADING SYSTEMS Company: Blockhouse Location: Remote (US time zones required); NYC in-person or hybrid preferred Type: Full-time Compensation: $110,000–$160,000 base, commensurate with experience. Equity grant and strategy PnL share included. Full benefits. ABOUT BLOCKHOUSE Blockhouse is a systematic crypto trading firm operating two live production strategies across centralized and decentralized perpetual venues, trading client capital. The firm was founded in 2022. Our core market-making engine is built in Rust and is deployed in production across multiple venues. We are actively extending the platform — integrating additional exchanges, refining execution, and developing the surrounding operational infrastructure, including our trader dashboard, GCP environment, and observability systems. Blockhouse is a small, engineering-driven team, and engineers work directly with the founders and Head of Trading. ROLE OVERVIEW This is a senior individual contributor position on our trading systems team, reporting into the Head of Trading. The role is focused on extending our production Rust engine: writing production code daily, owning meaningful components of the system end-to-end, and raising the technical standard of the team through code review, design input, and mentorship of junior engineers. We are not looking to rebuild the platform. Our system is operational and trades real capital today. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to navigate an existing codebase, identify high-impact improvements, deliver them to production incrementally, and improve the reliability and extensibility of the platform over time. 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 - Partn