At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our team to design, code, and maintain cutting-edge trading systems.
- Company: Jump Trading Group, a leader in innovative financial technology.
- Benefits: Gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and potential full-time opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible internship timing and a dynamic environment for growth.
- Why this job: Work on real projects that impact global financial markets and enhance your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience with C++/Python and a passion for solving complex problems.
The predicted salary is between 22500 - 27500 £ per year.
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. 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.
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 within our core development team that designs, codes, tests, and maintains our distributed trading system. You will learn the fundamentals of a large-scale, high-performance infrastructure; sharpen your C++/Python programming skills; and see what it’s like to work as a full-time software engineer at Jump. Throughout your internship you will take on projects targeted for production, which go through our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. You will be working side by side with our experienced software engineers where you will receive continuous feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the summer.
Our internship program is the primary way we identify top young software engineers for our core development team, and it’s a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at Jump.
- Experience with C++ programming on Linux
- Experience with command line on Linux
- Experience with Python programming on Linux
- 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 using both novel and state of the art commercial solutions
- Interest in using knowledge from several areas -- such as hardware, networking, operating systems -- to produce extremely high-performance software
- No finance or economics study or work experience required
- Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
- Advanced coursework in algorithms, network programming, operating systems, compilers
- Experience with any of the following: gRPC, kafka, redpanda, eBPF, dpdk, Clickhouse, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Pandas, SQL, MySQL, DuckDB or the Arrow ecosystem
Intern Software Developer employer: Jump Trading
Jump Trading is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, making it an ideal place for aspiring quantitative traders. With a focus on empowering talent through intensive training and mentorship, interns will gain hands-on experience in developing predictive models and automated trading strategies while working alongside industry experts. Located in a dynamic environment, Jump offers unique opportunities for personal and professional growth, ensuring that every team member can thrive and contribute to groundbreaking research in financial markets.
