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, characterized by constant innovation, 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.

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 Chicago. 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. Other duties as assigned or needed.

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

• Build Web-based applications that interact with several components of our real-time trading platform using advanced Typescript, Python, and modern Web frameworks.
• Take on projects working on production code.
• 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