Campus Data Engineer (Intern)
Jump TradingAbout the Role
Join our Core Development team for an intensive 10-week data engineering internship where you will work alongside experienced engineers on production code and infrastructure. You'll develop and maintain firm-wide data pipelines, apply your programming and analysis skills to real-world data solutions, and participate in the full cycle of development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. This role includes ongoing mentorship from dedicated engineers and is a proven path to full-time opportunities at Jump Trading.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following: 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 data pipelining and database management -- to ensure firm wide data integrity
- Comfortability with Claude Code
- Reliable and predictable availability
- No finance or economics study or work experience required
- Past internship or job experience in a data engineering role is a plus (helpful, but not required)
- Advanced coursework in algorithms & data structures (helpful, but not required)
- Exposure to data analytics tools such as Pandas (helpful, but not required)