About the position
Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems. Core Development is a global team of technologists who architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software & hardware engineering, data science and research, to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs. Our software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience with our technology team that designs, codes, tests, and maintains our distributed trading system and one of the world’s largest supercomputers.
Responsibilities
- Work side by side with experienced software engineers and receive ongoing feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor.
- Take on projects working on production code and gain experience with the full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies.
- Apply programming and analysis skills to contribute to the real-time large-scale, high-performance trading platform and related infrastructure.
- Other duties as assigned or needed.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following: C++ development on Linux platform, Python development on Linux platform.
- Strong understanding of data structures and threading models.
- Ability to work with a team in a fast-paced environment, deploying new software daily.
- Passion for solving complex problems and learning to build optimal solutions from scratch.
- Interest in using knowledge from several areas such as hardware, networking, OS design to produce extremely high-performance software.
- Reliable and predictable availability.
Nice-to-haves
- Past internship or job experience in a software development role.
- Advanced coursework in algorithms, network programming, operating systems, compilers.
Benefits
- Estimated base salary of $250,000 per year.
- International students are encouraged to apply. We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions.
