Campus Software Engineer (Intern)
Campus Software Engineer (Intern)
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Job Description
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 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.
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 its 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. May include other duties as assigned or needed.
You will be working side by side with our experienced software engineers and youll 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 its a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at Jump.
Based on your interests and skills youll be matched with projects in one or more of the following tracks:
C / Trading Platform Engineer / Embedded Systems Engineer Track
Focus: C programming low level systems programming optimisation and performance engineering hardware development driver development
Python 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
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
