At a Glance
- Tasks: Build web applications using advanced Typescript and Python for a real-time trading platform.
- Company: Join Jump Trading, a leader in innovative financial technology and research.
- Benefits: Gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and potential full-time opportunities after the internship.
- Other info: Flexible internship timing available, including non-summer terms.
- Why this job: Make an impact in a fast-paced environment while developing cutting-edge software solutions.
- Qualifications: Proficiency in web development, Python, and a passion for problem-solving.
The predicted salary is between 20000 - 30000 £ 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. 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.
NOTE - We accept students needing placements or otherwise extended internships. We also allow internships to take place during a non-summer term (for example - the winter, spring, or fall months) if preferable when it makes sense.
What you will do: Our Web Dev / UI software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Trading. During your internship, you will use advanced Typescript, Python, and modern Web frameworks to build Web-based applications that interact with several components of our real-time trading platform. 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 or return internship opportunities at Jump Trading in London. You will take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. May also include other duties as assigned or needed.
Skills you will need:
- Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following:
- Web development using Python and Typescript
- Python development on Linux platform
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, 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, instead of simply assembling things from existing libraries
- Interest in using knowledge from several areas -- such as hardware, networking, OS design -- to produce extremely high-performance software
- Reliable and predictable availability
* No finance or economics study or work experience required
Also helpful, but not required:
- Comfort in React
- Code in a real work environment
- Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern) in London employer: Jump Trading
Jump Trading Group is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, making it an ideal place for aspiring software engineers. With a focus on cutting-edge research and technology, interns will gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment while working on impactful projects that shape the future of financial markets. The opportunity to transition into full-time roles or return internships in London further enhances the potential for personal and professional growth within this dynamic organisation.
