At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team to develop and maintain cutting-edge trading systems using Python.
- Company: Jump Trading Group, a leader in innovative financial technology.
- Benefits: Enjoy private medical insurance, pension schemes, and paid parental leave.
- Other info: Collaborative culture focused on innovation and personal growth.
- Why this job: Make an impact in the fast-paced world of electronic trading with exciting challenges.
- Qualifications: Strong Python and Linux skills; experience with C++/SQL is a plus.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ 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.
Jump is looking to add a dynamic software engineer to one of our growing quantitative trading teams. The individual in this role will work hand in hand with traders and technologists to take ownership of trading issues, operational issues, and the deployment process for the team's production trading, with a focus on making the processes scalable and fault tolerant. This will involve writing and maintaining a complex python infrastructure, as well as ensuring that the production servers are properly configured, and that various sources of information for production processes are kept up to date. The ideal candidate will be passionate about development, keen to learn about automated electronic trading and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. In this role, a candidate can expect exposure to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems. The trading team sees technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to cool cutting edge technologies.
What you’ll do:
- Ensuring production servers are properly configured
- Writing and maintaining a complex python infrastructure
- Other duties as assigned or needed
Skills you’ll need:
- Strong knowledge of Python and Linux. Some experience with C++/SQL preferable
- Strong debugging skills in both code development and systems infrastructure
- Good instincts for performance vs simplicity trade-offs
- Ability to make the right engineering decisions to achieve maintainability, extensibility and debuggability
- Self-directed, excited to take ownership of projects and be responsible for mission-critical systems
- You will be able to manage your own priorities and have the context-switching capacity required to work on several projects at once
Benefits include:
- Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
- Travel Medical Insurance
- Group Pension Scheme
- Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
- Paid Parental Leave
- Parking and Commuter Benefits
DevOps/High Performance Trading System Engineer employer: Jumptrading
Jump Trading Group is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, empowering talented individuals to push scientific boundaries in the fast-paced world of finance. With a commitment to employee growth, we offer exposure to cutting-edge technologies and complex problem-solving opportunities, all while providing comprehensive benefits such as private medical insurance and a group pension scheme. Our unique work environment encourages creativity and mutual respect, making Jump an ideal place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers.
