Software Engineer | GUI

Jump Trading•Chicago, IL

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 individual talent by incentivizing collaboration and mutual respect. Jump Trading designs, develops, and deploys technologies that change our world, funds start-ups across industries, and partners with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems. The global team of technologists at Jump architect, build, and maintain our world-class trading platform, leveraging software & hardware engineering, data science, and research to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs. This role is within the Realtime Apps team, responsible for building world-class trading tools that empower trading teams to visualize and trade in global markets.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building high-performance GUI applications
Strong experience with React and modern web application architecture
Deep understanding of low-level rendering pipelines and rendering techniques
Hands-on experience with WebAssembly (WASM), Web APIs, WebGPU, WebGL, or equivalent graphics technologies
Experience building real-time, data-intensive web applications
Solid full-stack fundamentals and the ability to work across frontend and backend boundaries
Strong focus on performance, memory usage, and responsiveness under heavy data loads
Ability to write clean, testable code and provide constructive code reviews
Desire to take technical ownership, influence architecture, and mentor other engineers

Nice To Haves

Experience optimizing rendering pipelines for large, frequently updating datasets
Familiarity with browser internals and performance profiling tools
Experience with Rust or C++
Background in trading, finance, or other real-time data-driven domains

Responsibilities

Build the next generation of high-performance, data-dense GUI applications that deliver real-time market data to traders.
Focus on tick-to-screen latency, performance, and visual clarity as these applications are the primary interface between users and our trading systems.
Focus on low-level rendering, graphics pipelines, and efficient data delivery to the browser, leveraging modern web technologies to push the limits of real-time GUIs.
Shape technical direction, mentor teammates, and establish best practices for building world-class GUI systems.