About the Role
Jump Trading Group is committed to world-class research, empowering exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets. Our culture fosters innovation, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a competitive spirit. We believe in winning together and unlocking individual talent through collaboration and mutual respect. Research outcomes drive superior risk-adjusted returns, and we design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups, and partner with research organizations and universities.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain infrastructure and pipelines to support firm-wide data.
- Work on production code and gain experience with the full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies.
- Apply programming and analysis skills to maintain and develop firm-wide data solutions.
- Undertake other duties as assigned or needed.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in Python development on a 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.
- Interest in using knowledge from 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.
- Advanced coursework in algorithms & data structures is a plus.
- Exposure to data analytics tools such as Pandas is a plus.
Skills
- Python development
- Linux platform
- Data structures
- Threading models
- Agile methodologies
- Data pipelining
- Database management
- Claude Code
- Data analytics tools
- Pandas
Location
- London
Work Type
- Internship
- 10-week experience
Experience Level
- Internship
About the Company
- Core Development is a global team of technologists who architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform.
- We leverage software & hardware engineering, data science and research, to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.
