Operations Trade Support
Jump Trading is a global trading firm.
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a global trading firm focused on research-driven trading and the engineering of scalable models, tools, infrastructure, and execution systems. Its operations combine trading, technology, AI/ML, and quantitative research, and it also runs research and talent programs including conference travel grants and a fellowship program.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will monitor live strategy performance, positions, P&L, and margin usage; adjust strategy parameters as market conditions change; and make risk-based decisions on underperforming strategies. You will backtest strategies, book OTC trades, triage production incidents, maintain trading configurations, develop operational tools, communicate with brokers and back-office stakeholders, and keep SOPs current.
Requirements
- Experience in trading, trading operations, or strategy support, ideally in energy, futures, or commodities markets
- Strong risk awareness and the ability to act decisively on live positions under pressure
- Knowledge of exchange-traded products, including contract specifications, expiries, and trading hours
- Programming ability in Python, C++, and shell scripting
- Experience with backtesting and data analysis
- Ability to triage, prioritize, and escalate technical and trading issues
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Relationship-building skills with counterparties and brokers
- Flexibility to cover the trading day and take over from Asia
- Collaborative, process-minded approach to documentation and knowledge sharing
- Reliable and predictable availability
Responsibilities
- Monitor strategy performance, P&L, margin usage, and positions throughout the trading day
- Identify, respond to, and report unusual trading or technical behaviour
- Adjust live strategy parameters as market conditions change
- Make risk-based decisions on switching off underperforming strategies and changing parameters or position size
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of traded products, contract dates, and trading hours
- Backtest changes to existing and new strategies
- Identify new trading opportunities
- Use in-house tools and services
- Book OTC trades when needed
- Triage, prioritize, and delegate trading and technology production issues
- Maintain trading uptime while markets are open
- Communicate current and potential issues with the Energy team and back office
- Build relationships with brokers
- Take over from the Asia team and provide flexible trading-day coverage
- Write end-of-day reports on risk, system changes, and incidents
- Maintain production configurations for trading and research
- Build tools that improve trading operations and monitoring
- Keep Confluence SOPs up to date
Benefits
- Private medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Travel medical insurance
- Group pension scheme
- Group life assurance and income protection schemes
- Paid parental leave
- Parking and commuter benefits