Software Engineer | Trading Team

Jump Trading

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 175,000 - 225,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid vacation plus paid holidays

Retirement plan with employer match

Job summary

A leading trading technology firm in Chicago is seeking a Software Engineer to join its quantitative trading teams. In this dynamic role, you will collaborate closely with technologists and traders to enhance the team infrastructure, tackling technical challenges in high performance computing. Ideal candidates should have at least 3 years of C/C++ development experience and strong analytical problem-solving skills. An attractive compensation package includes discretionary bonuses and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

Minimum 3 years of C / C++ development experience.
Strong instincts around performance vs simplicity tradeoffs.
Experience working on a Linux platform.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders.
Maintain all elements of the team infrastructure.
Solve technical problems in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

C / C++ development

Performance optimization

Problem solving skills

Linux platform experience

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Job description

Overview

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

As a Software Engineer on one of our growing quantitative trading teams, you will collaborate extensively with technologists, quantitative researchers, and traders to evolve, improve, and maintain all elements of the team infrastructure, including execution, signal generation, model building and back testing. This may include other duties as assigned or needed. The ideal candidate will be passionate about development and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. In this role, a candidate can expect exposure to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems involving high performance computing, software design and big data. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low latency solutions. The trading team sees technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to cool cutting edge technologies.

Skills You’ll Need

At least 3 years of C / C++ development experience, including low level and high level optimization
Strong instincts around performance vs simplicity tradeoffs, engineering for maintainability, extensibility and debuggability
Strong communication, analytical and problem solving skills, including debugging and code comprehension
Experience working on a Linux platform
Self-directed and able to take ownership of projects and responsibilities
Minimum academic qualification Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent
Reliable and predictable availability

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Benefits