Campus Software Engineer (Full-Time)

Jump Trading•Chicago, IL

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Jump Trading Group is committed to world-class research, empowering 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, fostering constant innovation through fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incentivizing 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. The Core Development team is a global group 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.

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, 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

Nice To Haves

Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
Advanced coursework in algorithms, network programming, operating systems, compilers
No finance or economics study or work experience required
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are encouraged to apply.
We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions.

Responsibilities

Joining the technology team that designs, codes, tests, and maintains our distributed trading system and one of the world’s largest supercomputers.
Working alongside experienced engineers and learning advanced skills in C++, Python, SDLC, and test automation.
Learning about all aspects of our world-class technology infrastructure.
Contributing to the work of technology groups focused on market data, order entry, risk management, simulation and/or UI development.
Other duties as assigned or needed.