Software Engineer, Core Development

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.

Our Risk Development team within Core Development is responsible for our global risk infrastructure. This suite of applications are designed to monitor the overall operational and market risk of the firm in real-time, including PnL, capital usage, greeks, and alerts.  We are looking to add a talented software engineer who is passionate, inquisitive and enjoys collaborating with others in a fast-paced and energetic environment.

Skills You’ll Need:

• At least 5+ years of modern C++ development experience in a Linux environment
• Strong understanding of computer systems e.g. operating systems, networks, performance optimization, etc.
• Experience in Object-Oriented design and multi threaded programming
• Experience in creating/supporting cross-platform multi threaded applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ideally some experience in developing low latency systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
• Reliable and predictable availability

If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both intern and full-time opportunities.