Software Engineer - Core Development & Trading

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.

We are seeking talented engineers to work in both our Core Development team, as well as within our quantitative trading teams. 

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.

As part of a trading team, Software Engineers collaborate extensively with technologists, quantitative researchers, and traders to evolve, improve, and maintain all elements of the team infrastructure, including execution, signal generation, model building and back testing.

The ideal candidate for any of our teams will be passionate about development and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. You can expect exposure to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems involving high performance computing, software design and big data. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low latency solutions.

Some of the skills that we are seeking:

At least 3+ years of professional experience in programming languages such as C++, Python and/or Rust

• Strong instincts around performance vs simplicity tradeoffs, engineering for maintainability, extensibility and debuggability
• Strong communication, analytical and problem solving skills, including debugging and code comprehension
• Experience working on a Linux platform
• Self-directed and able to take ownership of projects and responsibilities
• Minimum academic qualification Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Reliable and predictable availability 

 

If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please check out our Intern and New Grad job postings.

Benefits

   - Discretionary bonus eligibility
   - Medical, dental, and vision insurance
   - HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
   - Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
   - Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
   - Paid vacation plus paid holidays
   - Retirement plan with employer match
   - Paid parental leave
   - Wellness Programs

Annual Base Salary Range $150,000—$200,000 USD