Trading Operations Specialist

Jump Trading; London (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Travel Medical Insurance

Group Pension Scheme

Group Life Assurance

Income Protection

Paid Parental Leave

Parking and Commuter Benefits

Job summary

Jump Trading Group seeks a proactive trading operations professional to monitor live strategy performance, manage risk, and support both trading and technology teams. You will backtest changes, adjust live parameters, and maintain high uptime while developing tools to improve efficiency.

The role requires deep knowledge of energy/commodities markets, experience with P&L monitoring, and strong communication for coordination with brokers and back offices.

Qualifications

• Experience in trading operations or strategy support, preferably in energy or commodities.
• Strong risk awareness and ability to act decisively on live positions under pressure.
• Knowledge of exchange-traded products, including contracts, expiries, and trading hours.
• Programming ability in Python, C++ and shell scripting to build support tools.
• Experience with backtesting and data analysis, plus curiosity for new P&L sources.
• Ability to triage technical and trading issues calmly and escalate clearly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including end-of-day reports.
• Good relationship-building skills and meeting counterparties in person.
• Flexible hours to cover trading day; collaborative knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Monitor strategy performance, P&L, margin usage and positions throughout the trading day.
• Spot, respond to and report unusual behaviour such as changes in message counts or large P&L moves.
• Manage live strategies by adjusting parameters as market conditions change.
• Use sound risk judgement to switch off underperforming strategies or adjust parameters.
• Know products in depth, including last trading dates and trading hours.
• Backtest changes to existing strategies and new ideas.
• Find new opportunities and ideas that generate P&L.
• Explore and use Jump's in-house tools and services.
• Book OTC trades when needed.
• Triage production issues and empower the fixers.
• Maintain high uptime so trading occurs whenever markets are open.
• Communicate with Energy team and back office about issues.
• Build relationships with brokers, including in-person meetings.
• Take over from Asia team on time each day and cover hours.
• Write end-of-day reports on risk, system changes, or incidents.
• Maintain production configs and monitor daily updates.
• Build reliable tools to improve trading and operations.
• Share knowledge via updated SOPs on Confluence.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Trading ops experience

Risk awareness

Exchange-traded products knowledge

Python

C++

Shell scripting

Backtesting

Data analysis

Communication

Relationship building

Flexibility with hours

Collaboration

Documentation

Uptime focus

Job description

Jump Trading Group seeks a proactive trading operations professional to monitor live strategy performance, manage risk, and support both trading and technology teams. You will backtest changes, adjust live parameters, and maintain high uptime while developing tools to improve efficiency.

The role requires deep knowledge of energy/commodities markets, experience with P&L monitoring, and strong communication for coordination with brokers and back offices.