Quantitative Developer
Blockhouse
full-time
Posted on:
Location: New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $110,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
Junior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerEC2KafkaNumpyPandasPythonRust
About the role
- 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
Requirements
- Have at least 1 - 2 years of experience on a trading desk, any asset class but crypto preferred
- Strong proficiency in C++, Python including Pandas, NumPy, and asynchronous programming
- Familiarity with market microstructure: limit order books, slippage, order types
- Experience with Kafka, or similar event-driven streaming systems
- Experience using AWS services: EC2, S3, CLI setup, or cloud-based deployment
- Exposure to backtesting frameworks or trading simulation environments
- Solid understanding of Git workflows and clean, modular code practices
- Bonus: Experience with Clickhouse, FIX APIs, containerization (Docker)