Quantitative Developer (New York)

Quantitative Developer Execution Infrastructure

Location : New York, NY (In-Person)

Company : Blockhouse

Job Type : Full-Time (In-office, 5 days / week)

Compensation : Between $110,000 - $170,000 total compensation with added trading performance bonus and opportunities for provision of seed capital

Note : This role is for candidates with 1 - 3 years of experience on an algorithmic trading desk, any asset class but crypto preferred.

About Blockhouse

Blockhouse is building intelligent execution algorithms for institutional traders. Our platform leverages advanced market microstructure modeling, machine learning, and real-time signal generation to minimize slippage and improve execution quality across equities, and crypto markets.

Role Overview

We're looking for a quantitative developer who thrives at the intersection of research, data engineering, and production systems. This is a hands-on role where you will support core infrastructure that powers our trading operations + algorithm infrastructure.

You'll work closely with quants and engineers to build and deploy performance-critical components of our trading platform, including backtesting engines, Kafka-based data streams, and cloud-native systems on AWS.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement components of our trading strategies and algorithms utilizing Python and C++ / Rust
• Build scalable backtesting pipelines and integrate benchmarking tools
• Work with Kafka to simulate or ingest real-time market data streams
• Deploy and test infrastructure on AWS EC2, manage artifacts via S3
• Collaborate with researchers to productionize trading strategies and evaluate execution quality
• Integrate with broker APIs using FIX and REST protocols
• Contribute to internal tooling, documentation, and model lifecycle management

What We're Looking For

Why Join Us?

Our perks and benefits include :

If you're interested, we encourage you to submit your resume directly on this platform. We look forward to hearing from you.