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, fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique 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 leading global research organizations and universities.
Responsibilities
- Lead and contribute to efforts that surface meaningful business intelligence insights
- Partner with Developers, Researchers, and Data Analysts to solve challenging problems
- Follow threads of information across teams and systems, connecting disparate inputs into coherent insights and actionable recommendations
- Work with technology teams on process design, workflow, and data management
- Liaise with research and trading teams on topics including post-trade statistical analysis of trading performance
- Broadcast key insights globally to connect the company across regions
- Produce research that educates and influences exchange decision making on market structure, product availability, and more
- Other duties as assigned or needed
Requirements
- Relentless curiosity, an instinct to ask thoughtful questions, dig beneath the surface, and keep learning
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to link details across different data sources, processes, and departments to broader business impact
- Deep interest in and passion for trading and global markets
- Ability to communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences, translating in both directions
- Self-starter, scrappy, and creative, with good instincts and a nose for making money
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities
- Ability to quickly learn business concepts, internalize priorities, and network effectively with peers
- Engineering experience working with programming languages for automation tasks
- Practical understanding of database concepts and ETL pipelining
- Experience with data analysis, SQL, Linux
- Reliable and predictable availability
Skills
- Python
- Data analysis
- SQL
- Linux
- Database concepts
- ETL pipelining
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $175,000—$200,000 USD
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation plus paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs
About the Company
- Jump Trading’s Business Intelligence team is focused on empowering the firm with analysis and insight that maximizes revenue and influences high-stakes global decision making.
- This team develops data pipelines, supports an enterprise BI analytics platform, and provides research across many areas of the organization.
- At Jump, solving hard problems with cutting edge technology is our business.
- Jump relies heavily on open-source solutions in our large and distributed global infrastructure that includes several large high-performance computing environments, a large low latency trading infrastructure, and significant supporting infrastructure.
