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.
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.
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