Campus Software Engineer (Full-Time)

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 lean into the cutting edge of agentic development to architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage the latest agentic tools to deliver the infrastructure that drives our trading and business needs.

What You’ll Do:

You’ll be joining our technology team that designs, codes, tests, and maintains our distributed trading system and one of the world’s largest supercomputers.

Our new graduate hires work alongside experienced engineers and learn advanced skills in C++, Python, SDLC, and test automation. This will also give you opportunities to learn about all aspects of our world-class technology infrastructure and to contribute to the work of our technology groups focused on market data, order entry, risk management, simulation and/or UI development.

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:

C++ development on Linux platform

Python development on Linux platform

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

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

* 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.

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