Software Engineer (Intern), London

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.

Software Engineering Internship (London)

*NOTE - We accept students needing placements or otherwise extended internships. We also allow internships to take place during a non-summer term (for example - the winter, spring, or fall months) if preferable when it makes sense.

About the Role:

Our software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience within our core development team that designs, codes, tests, and maintains our distributed trading system.

You will learn the fundamentals of a large-scale, high-performance infrastructure; sharpen your C++/Python programming skills; and see what it’s like to work as a full-time software engineer at Jump. Throughout your internship you will take on projects targeted for production, which go through our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. You will be working side by side with our experienced software engineers and you’ll receive ongoing feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the summer.

Our internship program is the primary way we identify top young software engineers for our core development team, and it’s a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at Jump.

Based on your interests and skills, you’ll be matched with projects in one or more of the following tracks:

Embedded Systems Engineer Track
Focus: C++ programming, low level systems programming, optimisation, and performance engineering

Data Engineer Track
Focus: Python, data manipulation, data pipelining, statistics and machine learning

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Experience with C++ programming on Linux
• Experience with Python programming on Linux
• Strong understanding of data structures 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

* No finance or economics study or work experience required

Also helpful, but not required:

• Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
• Advanced coursework in algorithms, network programming, operating systems, compilers