Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern)

Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern)

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.

About the Web Dev / UI Software Engineer Internship :

Our Core Dev software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Trading.

What You'll Do :

During your internship, you will use advanced Javascript, 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 software engineering teams, 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

Skills You'll Need :

Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following : Web development using Python and Javascript

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

Bonus Points :

Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus

• 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.

The estimated base salary for this role is $250,000 per year.