Software Engineer Trading Team
Jump Trading is a global trading firm where traders, engineers, and researchers develop trading strategies, models, infrastructure, and systems across asset classes and time horizons.
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 design, implement, and optimize trading algorithms; collaborate on trading strategies; test systems for accuracy and stability; and improve platform performance through resource efficiency and hardware optimization. You will also maintain strong working relationships and support team duties as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- At least 5 years of C++ development experience
- Expertise in algorithmic trading systems
- Track record developing, deploying, and maintaining market order execution algorithms
- Experience designing or implementing large-scale big data processing or modeling systems on high-performance computing clusters
- Exceptional problem-solving skills
- Analytical mindset
- Strong testing and quality assurance focus
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Reliable and predictable availability
Responsibilities
- Design trading algorithms
- Implement trading algorithms
- Optimize trading algorithms
- Collaborate on trading strategies
- Test trading systems for accuracy and stability
- Improve trading platform performance
- Optimize resource efficiency and hardware usage
- Maintain strong team relationships
