Campus C++ Software Engineer (Intern)
Jump TradingAbout the Role
Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. Our APAC C++ team sits at the intersection of trading and technology — we build and maintain the live trading system, risk infrastructure, back testing infrastructure and platforms for post-trade analysis. You'll work on problems that matter, ship code that runs in production, and collaborate directly with various businesses, operations, and research teams across the firm.
Responsibilities include: designing, building, and maintaining the live trading system (market data handling, order entry, full order lifecycle); building business-specific trading platforms supporting expansion into new businesses and markets; designing risk infrastructure modules that monitor performance in real-time and apply pre-trade and post-trade controls; building and maintaining back testing infrastructure for systematic strategies against historical data; producing datasets traders and researchers rely on via high-throughput C++ compute engines; and taking production ownership by debugging real incidents and fixing root causes.
Requirements
- You write clean, production-quality code and take pride in the craft — not just making it work, but making it right
- You are self-driven and proactive, with a natural instinct to take ownership and push through ambiguity
- You collaborate well across teams — trading, operations, finance, and engineering all depend on what we build
- You thrive in a fast-paced trading environment where priorities shift, projects need to move quickly, and you constantly need to pick up new skills and knowledge
- You are genuinely curious about how things work under the hood — systems, markets, data flows — and you go deeper than the surface
- You use AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, etc) to move faster — and you have the judgment to know when to trust the output and when to question it
- You're rigorous with data — you dig into large datasets to resolve complex issues, and you don't trust easy conclusions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- Proficient in C++ with hands-on experience working with large-scale systems
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design, networking concepts and operating systems
- Solid debugging skills and the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases quickly
- Comfortable working on Linux — command line, debugging, and bare-metal environments
- Candidates should be interested in working in one of our APAC offices for their full-time job after graduation