Software Engineer | Core Development
About The Position
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. 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. Software Engineers within Core Development design, build and test the infrastructure, tools and systems that drive Jump's business. They collaborate extensively with traders, quantitative researchers and technologists across the organization to solve difficult technical problems ranging from CPU architecture and operating systems to networking and hardware. We look for strong problem solvers who are passionate, inquisitive and enjoy collaborating with others in a fact-paced and energetic environment.
Requirements
- At least 4+ years of modern C++ development experience in a Linux environment
- Strong understanding of computer systems e.g. operating systems, networks, and performance optimization
- Experience in Object-Oriented design and multi threaded programming
- Experience in creating/supporting cross-platform multi threaded applications
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
Nice To Haves
- Ideally some experience in developing low latency systems
Responsibilities
- design, build and test the infrastructure, tools and systems
- collaborate extensively with traders, quantitative researchers and technologists across the organization to solve difficult technical problems
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
