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.
What You'll Do:
We are looking to add a dynamic Software Engineer to our cryptocurrency trading team. The individual in this role will collaborate extensively with traders, researchers and technologists to evolve, improve, and maintain all elements of the team infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be passionate about development and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. In this role, a candidate can expect exposure to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems involving high performance computing, software design and big data. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low latency solutions. Other duties as assigned or needed.
The trading team sees technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to interesting cutting-edge technologies.
Skills You’ll Need:
- At least 5 years of C++ design and programming skills
- At least 5 years of experience developing real-time software applications
- Strong understanding of networking concepts (Ethernet, TCP/IP, IB, etc.) with low level networking knowledge preferred
- Strong understanding of performance tradeoffs with existing commercial architectures (CPU/GPU/FPGA, etc.)
- Broad knowledge of algorithms and basic understanding of statistics and algebra
- Experience with scripting languages (Python, shell scripting, etc.)
- Proven individual contributor in a dynamic environment
- Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related area
- Reliable and predictable availability
If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both intern and full-time opportunities.
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What We Do
Jump Trading 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.
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