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 unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting 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 world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software & hardware engineering, data science and research, to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.

Our Vendor Data Group is part of the larger Core Development team and is responsible for curating a centralized source of research and reference data for the firm to utilize. The Vendor Data Group operates in a very dynamic environment utilizing a sophisticated and diverse technology stack. The team interfaces with all aspects of the firm, from Trading, Research, and Technology to Risk, Middle Office and Accounting – providing individuals within the group a full 360-degree view of Jump.

The role offers the individual the opportunity to develop both business and technical expertise, while significantly contributing to our evolving code base.

What You’ll Do:

The ideal candidate will be able to dig into the technical details and work with end-users to understand their needs and implement streamlined solutions to deliver results. We are looking for individuals who are instinctively curious self-starters, demonstrating the ability to independently drive tasks and projects to completion in a team environment.

Working with a variety of datasets, provide a scalable, centralized, validated representation of data for consumers to utilize.
Review and understand various datasets leveraging vendor documentation, liaising with external vendors as needed to better understand data.
Anticipate data behavior, based on analysis and understood vendor and market conventions, and implement appropriate solutions and controls to identify and resolve issues during daily processing.

** Skills You'll Need:**

At least 3+ years of experience in Python, with exposure/use of data analytics tools a bonus
Strong unit-testing / test-driven coding style
Willingness to diversify and master other technical skills on the job
Experience working with various data storage formats, filesystems, and event queues preferred
Hands-on experience working within a Linux environment
Excellent written and verbal communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Reliable and predictable availability

Software Engineer, Data Engineering