Operations Trade Support

jumptrading; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Private medical insurance

Travel medical insurance

Group pension scheme

Life assurance & income protection

Paid parental leave

Parking & commuter benefits

Zusammenfassung

Jump Trading Group in London seeks a driven trading operations professional to monitor strategy performance, manage live positions, and respond to market changes. The role emphasizes risk awareness, rapid decision-making, and collaboration with energy and back-office teams to ensure uptime and effective trading across global markets.

The candidate should have strong programming skills (Python, C++, shell), experience in backtesting, and the ability to build reliable tools.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in a trading operations or strategy support role.
• Strong risk awareness and decisive action on live positions.
• Knowledge of exchange-traded products, specs, expiries, and trading hours.
• Programming in Python/C++ and shell scripting to build usable tools.
• Experience with backtesting and data analysis.
• Clear written and verbal communication; ability to report on risk and incidents.

Aufgaben

• Monitor strategy performance, P&L, margin usage and positions throughout the trading day.
• Backtest changes and new strategies; explore new opportunities for profit.
• Triage production issues and coordinate with tech and trading teams.
• Maintain production configs and improve monitoring and tools for trading and research.
• Write end-of-day reports on risk, system changes, incidents, and trading outcomes.

Kenntnisse

Trading operations

Risk awareness

Exchange-traded products

Python

C++

Shell scripting

Backtesting

Data analysis

Communication

Relationship building

Flexible hours

Collaboration

Jobbeschreibung

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.

What You'll Do:

• Monitor strategy performance, P&L, margin usage and positions throughout the trading day.
• Spot, respond to and report unusual behaviour, such as changes in message counts, packet loss, or large moves in positions or P&L.
• Manage live strategies by adjusting parameters as market conditions change.
• Use sound risk judgement: decide when to switch off an underperforming strategy, and when to change parameters or size up responsibly.
• Know your products in depth, including when and how they trade, their last trading dates and their trading hours.
• Backtest changes to existing strategies, as well as new strategies.
• Find new opportunities and ideas that make money.
• Explore and use Jump's in-house tools and services.
• Book OTC trades when needed.
• Triage production issues, both trading and technology, then prioritise and delegate them. Give the people fixing them everything they need to reproduce the problem.
• Keep uptime as high as possible so that we're trading whenever the market is open.
• Communicate clearly and promptly with the Energy team and the back office about current or potential issues.
• Build strong relationships with brokers, including meeting them in person.
• Take over on time from the Asia team each day and be flexible on hours so the trading day is fully covered.
• Write short end-of-day reports on key matters such as risk, system changes, or incidents that affected trading.
• Maintain the production configs used for trading and research and check daily for updates from the team and the wider firm.
• Build reliable, supportable tools that make trading and operations work better, for example by streamlining processes or improving monitoring.
• Share what you know by keeping the SOPs on Confluence up to date so others can follow them.
• The ability to triage technical and trading issues calmly, prioritise them sensibly and escalade them clearly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, from short end-of-day reports to working with back office and brokers.
• Good relationship-building skills, including meeting counterparties in person.
• Flexibility on working hours to cover the trading day and take over from Asia.
• A collaborative, process-minded approach to documenting and sharing knowledge.
• Reliable and predictable availability.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You'll Need:

• Experience in a trading, trading operations, or strategy support role, ideally in energy or another futures or commodities market.
• Strong risk awareness and the confidence to act decisively on live positions under pressure.
• Good knowledge of exchange-traded products, including contract specs, expiries, and trading hours.
• Programming ability in Python, C++ and shell scripting, enough to build tools that others can support.
• Comfort with backtesting and data analysis, plus curiosity about finding new sources of P&L.
• The ability to triage technical and trading issues calmly, prioritise them sensibly and escalade them clearly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, from short end-of-day reports to working with back office and brokers.
• Good relationship-building skills, including meeting counterparties in person.
• Flexibility on working hours to cover the trading day and take over from Asia.
• A collaborative, process-minded approach to documenting and sharing knowledge.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

Benefits include:

• Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits