About the company
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.
Job Summary
About the Role:
šOur Web Dev / UI software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Trading. šDuring 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. šOur internship program is the primary way we identify top young software engineers for our core development team, and itās a proven path for earning full-time or return internship opportunities at Jump Trading in London. šYou will take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. May also include other duties as assigned or needed.
What You'll Need:
šHands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following:
šWeb development using Python and Javascript
šPython development on Linux platform
šStrong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and threading models
šAbility to work with a team in a fast-paced environment, deploying new software daily
šPassion 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 ā
šReliable and predictable availability
