Campus Software Engineer (Intern)

P2P; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 212,500 - 287,500; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group offers a 10-week software engineering internship within Core Development, focusing on the distributed trading system and large-scale infrastructure. You will code, test, and refine production software under mentorship, gaining exposure to real-time trading technology and the full development lifecycle.

Participants work with experienced engineers, learn Agile processes, and may earn full-time opportunities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with C++ or Python on Linux
• Strong data structures and threading knowledge
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment
• Desire to build high-performance software from scratch

Responsibilities

• Work on production code and participate in full development cycle using Agile methodologies
• Collaborate with mentors and engineers on challenging projects
• Contribute to a large-scale, high-performance trading platform and related infrastructure

Skills

C++ on Linux

Python on Linux

Data structures

Threading

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Hardware/OS design

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

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.

What You’ll Do:

Our software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience with our technology team that designs, codes, tests, and maintains our distributed trading system and one of the world’s largest supercomputers.

You will be working side by side with our experienced software engineers and will receive ongoing 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.

Over the course of the summer, you will take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. You will apply your programming and analysis skills to contribute to our real-time large-scale, high-performance trading platform and related infrastructure.

Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

• Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following:
  • C++ development on Linux platform
  • Python development on Linux platform
• 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 and learning to build optimal solutions from scratch, instead of simply assembling things from existing libraries
• Interest in using knowledge from several areas -- such as hardware, networking, OS design -- to produce extremely high-performance software
• Reliable and predictable availability

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 with AI tools like Claude Code in a real work environment

No finance or economics study or work experience required

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are encouraged to apply. We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions

The estimated base salary for this role is $250,000 per year.