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Campus Software Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading LLC is a proprietary trading firm headquatered in Chicago, IL.

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Campus Software Engineer (Intern)

About the Software Engineer Internship:

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. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

You will be working side by side with our experienced software engineers and you’ll receive ongoing feedback and 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. 

In the next phase of the internship, 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. 

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 

* No finance or economics study or work experience required  

BONUS POINTS:

  • Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
  • Advanced coursework in algorithms, network programming, operating systems, compilers 

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