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Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern)

Chicago, IL · On-site

$212.50 - $287.50/hr

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 or return internship opportunities at ...

P2P

Software Developer Intern

Chicago, IL · On-site

$202.50 - $247.50/hr

DRW enables our Software Developer Interns to develop computationally intensive software under the guidance of senior technologists with the goal of deployment during your ten weeks. While your days ...

DRW

Software Developer Intern

Chicago, IL · On-site

$225K/yr

DRW enables our Software Developer Interns to develop computationally intensive software under the guidance of senior technologists with the goal of deployment during your ten weeks. While your days ...

RBN Chicago

Lead Software Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

Hire, mentor and manage software engineers and interns from the Computer Science department Coordinate development projects across distributed teams Actively engage with our R&D group to explore new ...

RBN

Lead Software Engineer

Chicago, IL

Hire, mentor and manage software engineers and interns from the Computer Science department Coordinate development projects across distributed teams Actively engage with our R&D group to explore new ...

Capital One

Lead Software Engineer

Chicago, IL

At least 4 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply) * At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) Preferred ...

Capital One

Lead Software Engineer

Chicago, IL

At least 4 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply) * At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) Preferred ...

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Campus Software Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading

Chicago, IL

$250K/yr

Full-time, Internship

Re-posted 14 days ago

Job description

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 incenting 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 lean into the cutting edge of agentic development to architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage the latest agentic tools to deliver the infrastructure that drives our trading and business needs.

What You'll Do:

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.

You will be working side by side with our experienced software engineers and will receive ongoing 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. 

Over the course of the summer, 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. 

Other duties as assigned or needed

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 
  • Reliable and predictable availability 

Also Helpful, but Not Required:

  • Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
  • Advanced coursework in algorithms, network programming, operating systems, compilers 
  • Experience with AI tools like Claude Code in a real work environment

* No finance or economics study or work experience required  

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are encouraged to apply. We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions

The estimated base salary for this role is $250,000 per year.

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