High-Impact Software Engineer Internship

Jump Trading; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading offers a 10-week software engineering internship within our core development team. You will work on a distributed trading system, learning high-performance infrastructure and full-cycle development in an Agile environment.

You’ll be mentored by senior engineers as you take on production-targeted projects and sharpen your C++/Python skills on Linux. The program identifies top talent for potential full-time opportunities and provides exposure to modern tools such as gRPC, Kubernetes,

Qualifications

• Experience with C++ on Linux and Git/version control.
• Python programming on Linux is required or strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of data structures and threading models.
• Experience collaborating in a fast-paced, team-based environment.

Responsibilities

• Work on production-targeted projects through full-cycle development, testing and release.
• Collaborate with experienced software engineers and receive mentorship.
• Sharpen C++/Python programming skills and contribute to high-performance infra.

Skills

C++ on Linux

Python on Linux

Git/version control

Data structures

Threading models

Team collaboration

Rust

Problem solving

Tools

gRPC

kafka

Kubernetes

Clickhouse

FastAPI

Pandas

SQL

MySQL

DuckDB

Arrow

Job description

Jump Trading offers a 10-week software engineering internship within our core development team. You will work on a distributed trading system, learning high-performance infrastructure and full-cycle development in an Agile environment.

You’ll be mentored by senior engineers as you take on production-targeted projects and sharpen your C++/Python skills on Linux. The program identifies top talent for potential full-time opportunities and provides exposure to modern tools such as gRPC, Kubernetes,