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Jump Trading

$250K/yr

... our world-class trading platform From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom ... Our Web Dev / UI software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Trading.

NinjaTrader

Sr. Database Reliability Engineer II

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

$109K - $148K/yr

As an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker, we're empowering traders to take ... Develop production-quality software that improves our persistence layer, developer tooling, and ...

IMC Trading

Software Engineer, Early Career

Chicago, IL · On-site

$200K/yr

Build and maintain our trading platform and software stack * Bring our trading strategies and technology platform to the next level * Collaborate with Traders, Quant Researchers and other Engineers ...

NinjaTrader

Sr. Data Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

$109K - $148K/yr

As an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker, we're empowering traders to take ... As an accomplished data engineer joining the Data & Analytics team, this is a terrific opportunity ...

Scalp Trade LLC

C++ Developer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$90K - $150K/yr

Play a key role in turning existing trading platforms and tools into market-ready products ... Quick Adaptability in Programming: Ability to swiftly learn and integrate new programming tools and ...

TransMarket Group

DevOps/SRE Intern

Chicago, IL · On-site

$58.75 - $78/hr

Work directly with our Traders, Trade Developers, Platform Developers, and IT Team to automate and maintain systems for deployment of trading software, configuration management, CI/CD and backtesting ...

Alpaca

Director of Engineering, Trading

Chicago, IL

Define and own and execute the engineering roadmap for Alpaca's institutional trading platform ... Build, lead, and scale a high-performing team of engineers with a strong culture of ownership and ...

NinjaTrader

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

$160K - $210K/yr

Join our Platform Engineering team, where you'll ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of the trading systems that power NinjaTrader. You'll deploy single- and multi-cluster services ...

Akuna Capital

Platform Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm focused on collaboration and cutting-edge technology. As a Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of projects, design and implement cloud solutions ...

Old Mission

Quantitative Trader (Options)

Chicago, IL

$150K - $200K/yr

Ensure all trading activities comply with regulatory requirements and internal policies. * Work closely with other traders, quants and developers. * Leverage a sophisticated trading platform to ...

Jump Trading

Campus Data Engineer (Intern)

Chicago, IL

$250K/yr

... our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom ... Our data engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience with our team who is responsible ...

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Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading
Finance and Insurance • 501 - 1,000 employees
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$250K/yr

Full-time, Internship

Posted 12 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 Web Dev / UI software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Trading.

During your internship, you will use advanced Typescript, Python, and modern Web frameworks to build Web-based applications that interact with several components of our real-time trading platform.

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 Jump Trading in Chicago.

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.

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:
  • Web development using Python and Typescript
  • Python development on Linux platform
  • Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, 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:

  • Comfort in React
  • Claude code in a real work environment
  • Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
  • 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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