Campus Software Engineer (Intern)

Software Engineering Internship (London)

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 driven by constant innovation and values fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent through incentivizing 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 architect, build, and maintain our trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software and hardware engineering, data science, and research to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.

What you will do

Our software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience within our core development team that designs, codes, tests, and maintains our distributed trading system.

You will learn the fundamentals of a large-scale, high-performance infrastructure; sharpen your C++/Python programming skills; and see what it’s like to work as a full-time software engineer at Jump. Throughout your internship, you will take on projects targeted for production, which go through our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. May include other duties as assigned or needed.

You will work side by side with experienced software engineers, receiving continuous feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the internship.

Our internship program is a primary way we identify top young software engineers for our core development team and is a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at Jump.

Note: We accept students needing placements or otherwise extended internships. Internships may take place during a non-summer term (for example, winter, spring, or fall) if preferable.

Skills you will need

• Experience with C++ programming on Linux
• Experience with command line on Linux
• Experience with Git/version control
• Experience with Python programming on Linux
• 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 using both novel and state-of-the-art commercial solutions
• Interest in using knowledge from several areas (such as hardware, networking, and operating systems) to produce extremely high-performance software
• Reliable and predictable availability

No finance or economics study or work experience required.

Also helpful, but not required

• Past internship or job experience in a software development role
• Advanced coursework in algorithms, network programming, operating systems, compilers
• Experience in Rust
• Claude Code in a real work environment
• Experience with any of the following: gRPC, Kafka, Redpanda, eBPF, DPDK, ClickHouse, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Pandas, SQL, MySQL, DuckDB, or the Arrow ecosystem