Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading • Chicago, IL

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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, requiring 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. 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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Comfort in React
• Claude code in a real work environment
• Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
• INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are encouraged to apply.
• We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions.

Responsibilities

• Use advanced Typescript, Python, and modern Web frameworks to build Web-based applications that interact with several components of our real-time trading platform.
• Take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed