Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern)
Jump TradingAbout the Role
This is an intensive 10-week Web Development and UI software engineering internship at Jump Trading, a leading quantitative trading firm. You will use advanced TypeScript, Python, and modern web frameworks to build web-based applications that interact with components of the firm's real-time trading platform. You'll work on production code, gain experience with full-cycle development processes including testing and release using Agile methodologies, and have the opportunity to earn a full-time or return internship offer at Jump Trading in London.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following: Web development using Python and Typescript; Python development on Linux platform
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, 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 hardware, networking, OS design -- to produce extremely high-performance software
- Reliable and predictable availability
- No finance or economics study or work experience required
- Comfort in React (helpful, but not required)
- Claude Code in a real work environment (helpful, but not required)
- Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus (not required)