Campus Python Software Engineer (Intern)

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 incentivizing 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.

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*Candidates should be interested in working in Shanghai for their full-time job after graduation.
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About the Role:

Our Software Engineer (Python) internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Trading's Shanghai office. You will be working with the team that helps the business make sense of data. You will get to sharpen your Python skills, through the mentorship provided by our Software Engineers, by researching, analyzing and building high-impact solutions and products that connect data better with the daily trading environment.

What You'll Do:

• You will be working with our experienced software engineers and receive ongoing feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the summer.

• You will use your Python programming skills to build high-impact products, helping Jump tackle exciting new initiatives and streamline every part of the trade cycle.

• You will also be part of the team that collects and analyzes datasets, to identify patterns and gain insights, to discover new and creative opportunities and solutions.

• You will take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release.

• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You'll Need:

• Strong academic foundation with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field

• Experience in using Python programming to investigate, make sense of, and improve on open-ended scenarios.

• Daily use of most recent Python standards preferred

• Comfortable with the Linux command line

• Curiosity for all things trading and computer related, taking a rigorous, detail-oriented approach in all that you do.

• Desire to make an impact in a collaborative, cross-team environment with a positive can-do attitude

• Ability to operate independently and communicate clearly in the fast-paced environment of a daily live-trading operation

• Reliable and predictable availability

* No finance or economics study or work experience required

Also helpful, but not required:

• Past internship or job experience in a software engineering role

• Additional experience in C++

• Exposure to data analytics tools such as Pandas