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

- **Company:** Blockhouse
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blockhouse/e78e69bc-6506-47ca-8855-67337df6b59c

## Job description

Quant Dev, Trading Systems (Rust and C++) Blockhouse, full time, NYC in person or hybrid preferred, remote within US time zones considered

## About Blockhouse

Blockhouse gives institutional asset managers access to the kind of trading infrastructure that usually takes years and millions of dollars to build. Founded in 2022, we run a noncustodial platform where clients keep custody of their assets while they trade, hedge and compound portfolios across crypto and tokenized markets, from FX and equities to treasuries and compute futures. Alongside the platform we run live delta neutral funding rate and market making strategies with client capital across major venues, and we keep expanding into new frontier markets such as compute hedging.

## The role

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.

## What you'll do

- 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

## What we're looking for

- 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

## Nice to have

- 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

## Why Blockhouse

- Direct ownership of systems that drive firm PnL
- Close work with the founders and quant team
- Meaningful equity and performance upside
- A live trading environment with a high engineering bar

## About Blockhouse

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blockhouse provides quantitative trading infrastructure and strategies for institutional allocators in frontier tokenized markets (crypto, tokenized equities, commodities, prediction markets), operating through a non-custodial platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage; raised $200K in June 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Aaditya Krishnamohan (Co-Founder & CEO), Pranav Udeshi (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial Services – Quantitative Trading & Infrastructure
- Target customers: Asset managers, prime brokers, stablecoin issuers, and on-chain treasuries (B2B, institutional)
- Mission or purpose: To build the vertically integrated wealth management platform that powers how capital is managed across every frontier market, making quantitative strategies accessible through non-custodial, institutional-grade execution.

## Products & Services
- **Funding Rate Arbitrage Strategy**: A market-neutral strategy that exploits funding rate differentials across perpetual futures exchanges. Targets 15‑30% APY with historically minimal drawdowns. [blockhouse.app](https://www.blockhouse.app/)
- **Market Making Strategy**: Low-latency liquidity provision on spot and perpetual venues, earning bid-ask spreads via adaptive inventory management. [blockhouse.app](https://www.blockhouse.app/)
- **Portfolio Management Dashboard**: Real-time visibility across strategies, venues, and positions. [blockhouse.app](https://www.blockhouse.app/)
- **Order & Execution Management**: Proprietary execution algorithms that minimize slippage and reduce transaction costs; millisecond-level order routing with co-located infrastructure. [blockhouse.app](https://www.blockhouse.app/)
- **Cross‑Venue Connectivity**: Integrated APIs for both CEX and DEX venues, handling unique margin rules, trading rules, and liquidation mechanics. [blockhouse.app](https://www.blockhouse.app/)
- **Prime Brokerage & Non-Custodial Accounts**: Clients keep custody; API keys are stored in write-only, zero-knowledge storage. [blockhouse.app](https://www.blockhouse.app/)
- **Future SaaS Offerings** (roadmap): Phase 1 – tokenized vaults with a yield-bearing stablecoin; Phase 2 – prime brokerage stack; Phase 3 – a matching engine for tokenized assets. [blockhouse.app/blog/blockhouse-journey](https://www.blockhouse.app/blog/blockhouse-journey)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $200,000 (Pre-Seed, June 2025); Assets Under Management (AUM) reached ~$16M as of May 2026, up from $0 in six months.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Two undisclosed investors in the pre-seed round. Clients include asset managers, funds of funds, and on-chain vaults representing over $5B in aggregate assets.
- **Growth Signals**: AUM grew from $0 to $16M in six months (Sept 2025 – May 2026); headcount increased 19.2% YoY to 19 employees; 2 active job postings (Rust Developer Intern, Experienced Rust Engineer); expanding into tokenized stocks, commodities, and prediction markets.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Non-custodial architecture**: Clients retain full control of keys and capital, a key differentiator for institutional risk management.
- **Full‑stack ownership**: Captures spread, custody, financing, and matching engine economics across all asset classes.
- **Cross‑asset & cross‑venue capabilities**: Supports tokenized FX, equities, commodities, crypto, fixed income, and pre-IPO stocks through a single stack.
- **Institutional‑grade infrastructure**: SOC 2 Type 2 in progress, 99.99% uptime, fully encrypted end-to-end, 24/7 monitoring.
- **Proven strategy performance**: Funding rate arbitrage strategy has demonstrated target APY of 15‑30% with minimal drawdowns.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen the full‑stack platform by launching tokenized vaults (Phase 1), prime brokerage (Phase 2), and a proprietary matching engine (Phase 3) – all building on the same execution infrastructure.
- Continue expanding asset class coverage: tokenized stocks and commodities rolling out imminently, followed by prediction markets.
- Productize internal algorithms, market data, and execution research as SaaS offerings to capture additional revenue streams.
- Maintain a strong engineering culture, hiring for Rust and systems‑level roles to support low‑latency trading and infrastructure.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Founded by two college roommates (NYU) who dropped out of UBS and other finance roles to build the company. The team is described as “the right team” for the generation‑defining work ahead. [blockhouse.app/blog/blockhouse-journey](https://www.blockhouse.app/blog/blockhouse-journey)
- **Workplace**: On‑site in New York City (Chelsea area). Employees work from physical offices. [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/blockhouse)
- **Engineering Focus**: Technical staff makes up 23% of the workforce (7 of 19). Stack includes Rust, React, TypeScript, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Go, and blockchain tools (Solidity, Vyper). Open roles for Rust engineers and interns.
- **Perks/Notable**: 24/7 monitoring and support; SOC 2 Type 2 compliance underway; opportunity to work on cutting‑edge quantitative trading infrastructure across both CeFi and DeFi.

## Sources
1. [blockhouse.app](https://www.blockhouse.app/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/blockhouse](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blockhouse)
3. [linkedin.com/company/blockhouse-capital](https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockhouse-capital)
4. [blockhouse.app/blog/blockhouse-journey](https://www.blockhouse.app/blog/blockhouse-journey)
5. [builtinnyc.com/company/blockhouse](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/blockhouse)

## Other roles at Blockhouse

- [Accounting Intern](https://feeny.ai/job/accounting-intern-blockhouse-new-york-ncjbnqhd0983) — New York, NY