software engineering 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

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 it's 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 where you will receive continuous 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 it's a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at Jump.

• Experience with C++ programming on Linux
• + Experience with command line on Linux
• + Experience with Git/version control
• 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 using both novel and state of the art commercial solutions
• Interest in using knowledge from several areas -- such as hardware, networking, operating systems -- 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
• Experience in Rust
• Claude Code in a real work environment
• Experience with any of the following: gRPC, kafka, redpanda, eBPF, dpdk, Clickhouse, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Pandas, SQL, MySQL, DuckDB or the Arrow ecosystem
  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.