Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading; Illinois; On-site; USD 213,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is offering a 10-week Web Dev/UI software engineering internship in Chicago. You will build Web-based applications with TypeScript and Python, interacting with components of our real-time trading platform. The program identifies top engineers for core team roles and may lead to full-time or return internships.

You will work on production code, gain experience with Agile development, testing, and release cycles, and collaborate with a fast-paced, innovative team.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in web development with Python and TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrent programming.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team on production-ready code.
• Interest in hardware or networking to boost performance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop web-based UI applications using TypeScript and Python for real-time trading.
• Contribute to production code and participate in testing and release processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment.
• Explore full-time or return internship opportunities in Chicago.

Skills

Web development

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Reliability

React

Internship

Tools

Linux

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.

Jump Trading has 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, sophisticated front-end technologies, 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

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

* 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.