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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 organizations to solve problems. One of Jump’s growing quantitative trading teams is looking to add a Technical Operations Systems Engineer to collaborate with researchers and technologists to evolve, improve, and maintain the trading team’s production infrastructure, ensuring smooth trading operations across global markets.
Responsibilities
- Provide primary US coverage for the team.
- Ensure strategies are connected to all markets.
- Ensure data is available in the right volume and format.
- Ensure the optimizer is running as scheduled.
- Manage the existing monitoring system.
- Act as the primary escalation point for error messages or jobs not running.
- Chase problems identified by the monitoring system to their source, identify bugs, and write fixes.
- Understand all processes overseen by the monitoring system and able to take a big-picture view of the business's operations.
- Participate in and ideally lead the building of any next-generation monitoring system.
- Establish and maintain a very high bar for uptime and robustness.
- Perform other duties as assigned or needed.
Requirements
- Work experience in Python, Linux, Bash.
- Scripting in a 'get the system up and running' context.
- Ability to write patches, with an ideal candidate able to write patches to the encoder.
- Must be able to follow error messages to the source, identify the problem, and begin the fix, rather than forwarding errors to others.
- Ability to identify, propose, and automate improvements to existing processes.
- Prior experience in trading is preferred.
- Reliable and predictable availability.
Skills
- Python
- Linux
- Bash
- Scripting
- Problem identification and fixing
- Collaboration
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Attention to detail
- Process improvement and automation
- Precision-oriented approach
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000—$250,000 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 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.