Software Engineer | Internship | Summer '27

About BlockTech BlockTech is a fast-paced algorithmic market maker at the frontier of cryptocurrency derivatives and spot markets, expanding into new markets. We employ algorithms to trade our own capital, 24/7, across some of the most data-rich venues in finance. For the Summer of 2027, we're looking for a Quantitative Research Intern to join our option pricing team in Amsterdam. The role This is an 8-10 week summer internship at our Amsterdam office, giving you a unique opportunity to work on an end-to-end project with a real and direct business impact. You’ll work in a small team and get the chance to understand how a trading firm actually works from the inside. You will: Participate in a customized training program that will give you an understanding of financial markets in general, the company and the project. Own a research project from design to deployment guided by experienced Quantitative Researchers. Understand how technology and research enable our trading, market data, and infrastructure systems Collaborate with fellow researchers and software engineers to bring your project to success Learn from the best, all while leveraging cutting-edge technology What we're looking for Currently in your (pen)ultimate year and enrolled in, or planning to pursue, at least a Master’s degree in a quantitative field at a top European university. Available full-time in Amsterdam, for a duration of 8 - 10 weeks over the summer of 2027, starting on the 5th of July Working knowledge of Python A critical mind that follows things until completion, high ownership, and clear communication in English What's in it for you? A summer internship in a relaxed and modern office in Amsterdam A dedicated mentor, a team of fellow interns and full-time quantitative researchers, an in-house training program, and exposure to how engineering, research, and trading actually work together The opportunity to work at the forefront of automated trading, in an environment that embraces AI to both ac

About BlockTech BlockTech is a fast-paced algorithmic trading firm facilitating global cryptocurrency derivatives and spot trading while expanding into new markets. Positions, PnL, and hedging all run through our Mid-Office team. When the numbers our traders and risk team rely on are wrong, this is where it gets found and fixed. The role We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Mid-Office team in this role, you'll own the systems that keep positions, PnL, and hedging correct across every venue we trade. You build and run the platform, and you're the one who notices when a number looks wrong and follows it until you know why. You will: Own the books. Maintain and evolve our position, trade, and PnL systems so they stay accurate across every venue. Do the quant work. Build and refine our hedging, Greeks, margin models, and early exercise premium calculations. Surface the risk. Build the risk views and calculations that show traders and the risk team what exposure we're carrying. Support the desk. Work side by side with traders and researchers, making sure the data they rely on is correct and available. Deliver reporting. Provide the data that internal stakeholders and regulators require, PnL breakdowns, trade surveillance, treasury accounting, and compliance. Own it in production. Spot discrepancies in live data, trace the root cause, and maintain what you ship. What we're looking for An engineer at heart with a strong quantitative background. Real enthusiasm for the engineering work. A relevant educational background, ideally in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Econometrics or Computer Science. Professional work experience with Python, Grafana and PostgreSQL. Strong Debugging skills. You can trace problems to their source even in unfamiliar systems A critical mind that follows things until completion, high ownership, and clear communication in English Nice to have Experience in finance (ideally trading), on the systems behind positions, PnL, risk, a

About BlockTech BlockTech is a fast-paced algorithmic trading firm facilitating global cryptocurrency derivatives and spot trading while expanding into new markets. As we continue to grow rapidly, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to take technical ownership of our Core systems and help shape how they evolve through our scale-up phase. This is a role for an engineer who has already built and operated correctness-critical systems at scale and who wants their technical decisions to set direction, not just follow it. What will you do? You will own the systems that keep our trading operation accurate at every level — positions, PnL, instruments, hedging, and the data flowing between them. Across exchanges and asset classes, your work determines whether the numbers our traders and risk team rely on are correct. As a senior engineer, you will also set the technical standards the rest of the team builds against. You will: Own the books. Maintain and evolve our position, trade, and PnL systems so they remain accurate across every venue. Architect the platform that supports trading. Design services that handle real-time exchange flow with the throughput and reliability our quoting and hedging depend on, making the structural calls that keep them fast and correct under load. Own the data flows. Operate and harden the public and private pipelines bringing market prices, account state, and trade events into our systems in real time. Lead venue integrations end-to-end. Deliver exchange and prime-broker integrations across protocol, account model, settlement, reconciliation, and surveillance and define the patterns we reuse for the next one. Model the instrument universe. Own the systems describing every tradable instrument - lifecycle, expiry, margin, RFQs, fast-path quoting - where both correctness and latency matter. Build self-healing systems. Design the detection and repair flows that identify position discrepancies and correct them automatically. Own hedging inf

About BlockTech BlockTech is a fast-paced algorithmic trading firm facilitating global cryptocurrency derivatives and spot trading while expanding into new markets. As we continue to grow rapidly, we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Core team amid our exciting scale-up phase! The role In this role, you will work on the systems that keep our trading operation accurate at every level, positions, PnL, instruments, hedging, and the data flowing between them. Across exchanges and asset classes, your work determines whether the numbers our traders and risk team rely on are correct. Own the books. Maintain and evolve our position, trade, and PnL systems so they remain accurate across every venue we operate on. Build the platform that supports trading. Design services that handle real-time exchange flow with the throughput and reliability on which our quoting and hedging depend. Own the data flows. Operate the public and private data pipelines that bring market prices, account state, and trade events into our systems in real time. Integrate new venues. Deliver exchange and prime-broker integrations end-to-end, protocol, account model, settlement, reconciliation, and surveillance. Model the instrument universe. Own the systems that describe every tradable instrument we trade, lifecycle, expiry, margin, RFQs, fast-path quoting, where both correctness and latency matter. Develop self-healing systems. Build the detection and repair flows that identify position discrepancies and correct them automatically. Build hedging infrastructure. Design and refine the gamma and delta hedging systems that our trading strategies depend on. Deliver reporting. Provide the data that internal stakeholders and regulators require, PnL breakdowns, trade surveillance, treasury accounting, and compliance. What we're looking for 1+ years of commercial working experience as a Software Engineer. We are looking for an engineer with breadth: someone comfortable moving between a Rust service

About BlockTech BlockTech is a fast-paced algorithmic trading firm. Specializing in crypto options, we facilitate global cryptocurrency derivatives and spot trading, while expanding into new markets. As we continue to grow rapidly, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to take technical ownership of the data infrastructure our trading and technology teams are built on. Every decision at BlockTech starts with data: exchange feeds, our own trade and account events, and the history we query to make sense of both. The Foundation team owns the systems that move, aggregate, and store all of it. We run our own Kafka, NATS, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Iceberg, self-hosted and tuned by us. We work primarily in Rust, with Python and SQL alongside. This is a role for an engineer who has already built and operated data infrastructure at scale, and who wants their technical decisions to set direction rather than follow it. What will you do? You will own the pipelines and stores every other team depends on. When a researcher backtests a strategy, when a trader checks a position, when risk queries yesterday, they are all reading data your systems ingested, routed, and kept correct. As a senior engineer, you will also set the technical standards the rest of the team builds against. You will: Own the ingest path. Collect public and private exchange information and internal trading data with minimal latency impact, and land it in our trading systems in real time. Architect the streaming layer. Design and operate our Kafka and NATS messaging systems for the throughput and delivery guarantees our critical flows depend on. Build the storage layer. Develop real-time aggregation and long-term storage across PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Iceberg, and make the structural calls that keep queries fast as volumes grow. Run what you build. Own capacity, retention, schema evolution, and failure behavior for infrastructure we host ourselves, with no managed service to hide behind. Make the

About BlockTech BlockTech is a fast-paced algorithmic trading firm facilitating global cryptocurrency derivatives and spot trading while expanding into new markets. As we continue to grow rapidly, we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Foundation team amid our exciting scale-up phase! You will Build & optimize: Design, develop, and maintain high-reliability, low-latency, and high-throughput foundational systems that enable our trading and technology teams to scale efficiently. Ingest & aggregate: Collect trading business data with minimal latency impact and ingest both public and private exchange information into our trading system. Store & stream: Develop and maintain infrastructure for real-time data aggregation and long-term storage, as well as our Kafka-based messaging systems. Collaborate & support: Work closely with multiple teams, assisting them in integrating with and making the most of our foundational systems. Innovate: Drive projects from concept to deployment with full ownership, and explore new tools, frameworks, and approaches to keep our infrastructure best-in-class. The Foundation team develops core software infrastructure (libraries, frameworks, and systems) for BlockTech, solving common problems and lending its expertise to enable other teams to stay focused on their respective domains. They own, develop, and configure a wide variety of critical, high-reliability software, ranging from low-level ultra-low-latency shared memory IPC libraries to high-throughput data buses and data aggregation systems including Kafka, NATS, PostgreSQL, and Iceberg. They work primarily in Rust, but also use Python and SQL. If you thrive on low-level problem-solving, building robust frameworks from scratch, and enabling others to move faster, this role is for you. What We're Looking For Essential: 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong focus on systems-level optimisation and awareness of hardware constraints Proficiency