Campus Software Engineer Intern (Dec 2026 Feb 2027)

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.

About the Role:

Our Software Engineer internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Tradings Sydney (or Singapore) office. You will be working with the team that helps the business make sense of data. You will get to sharpen your Python skills through the mentorship provided by our Software Engineers by researching analyzing and building high-impact solutions and products that connect data better with the daily trading environment. At Jump you will experience a healthy work-life balance a casual environment and a flat management structure. Our internship program is the primary way we identify top young talent and its a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at Jump.

What youll do:

• You will be working with our experienced engineers and receive ongoing feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the summer.
• You will use your Python programming skills to build high-impact products helping Jump tackle exciting new initiatives and streamline every part of the trade cycle.
• You will also be part of the team that collects and analyzes datasets to identify patterns and gain insights to discover new and creative opportunities and solutions.
• You will take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development testing and release.
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills Youll need:

• Strong academic foundation with a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a closely-related field
• Experience in using Python programming to investigate make sense of and improve on open-ended scenarios.
• Exposure to tools such as Pandas NumPy PyCharm
• Experience working with Linux/UNIX OS including advanced commands and shell scripts
• Understanding of networking concepts such as routing multicast ethernet
• Curiosity for all things trading and computer related taking a rigorous detail-oriented approach in all that you do.
• Desire to make an impact in a collaborative cross-team environment with a positive can-do attitude
• Ability to operate independently and communicate clearly in the fast-paced environment of a daily live-trading operation
• Reliable and predictable availability

Also helpful but not required:

• Past internship or job experience in a software engineering role

* No finance or economics study or work experience required