Campus Software Engineer (Intern)
Jump TradingAbout the Role
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 that go through our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. You will work side by side with experienced software engineers and receive continuous feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor.
Requirements
- 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, operating systems -- to produce extremely high-performance software
- Reliable and predictable availability
- Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
- 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