Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern)

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

Job summary

Jump Trading Group in Chicago is offering a 10-week Web Dev/UI software engineering internship. You will build Web-based applications using Typescript and Python that interface with components of our real-time trading platform.

This program is the primary path to securing a full-time or return internship opportunity on Jump's core development team. You will work on production code, gaining experience with our full-cycle development process, including testing and release using Agile

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with web development using Python and Typescript.
• Proficiency in Python development on Linux.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and threading.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team and deploy software daily.
• Interest in combining hardware/network/OS concepts for high-performance software.
• Reliability and punctual availability.

Responsibilities

• Develop Web-based applications interacting with real-time trading platform components.
• Work on production code within an Agile development lifecycle.
• Gain experience with full-cycle development, testing, and release.
• Participate in internship to identify candidates for core team.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Python/Typescript

Python on Linux

Algorithms & data structures

Concurrency

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Reliability

React

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 Web Dev / UI software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Trading.

During your internship, you will use advanced Typescript, Python, and modern Web frameworks to build Web-based applications that interact with several components of our real-time trading platform.

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 or return internship opportunities at Jump Trading in Chicago.

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.

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:
• Web development using Python and Typescript
• Python development on Linux platform
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, 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

* No finance or economics study or work experience required

Also helpful, but not required

• Comfort in React
• Claude code in a real work environment
• Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus

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.