Blockchain Engineer

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.

Jump Crypto, the crypto division of Jump Trading Group, is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. We're builders, partners, and traders who take a long-term view of crypto's prospects and operate to unlock the full potential of open, community-driven networks. Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015, we've grown into a dynamic and seasoned team of high performing players across a range of functions. Today, we play an important role in the development of some of the largest and most innovative crypto communities.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Jump Crypto, you will partner with project leads, researchers, and other senior developers on strategic efforts to add value to blockchain projects within high value ecosystems. You will build across multiple layer 1 blockchains, writing infrastructure used by the most impactful projects in crypto. You’ll write production-critical software, either off-chain (traditional software) or on-chain (smart contracts), depending on your skillset. You’ll also contribute to internal and external tooling.

What You'll Do:

• Write high-performance production-critical software used by the biggest projects in crypto.

• Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure outstanding UX

• Write high-quality, well-tested code that is intended to be open source

• Manage fast-moving priorities and help shape product strategy

• Manage the priorities, deadlines and deliverables for several blockchain projects

• Collaborate with community members via channels such as Slack, Discord, and Telegram

• Write clear and concise documentation to facilitate adoption

• Manage or train other engineers both internal to Jump, as well as within the crypto community, to help projects scale

• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

• Passionate about the crypto industry and eagerly following the fast-evolving landscape

• Strong interest in building logic and applications that will accelerate the adoption of the decentralized future

• Experienced in architecting, or contributing to, mid-to-large scale software projects

• Familiar with C++, C or Rust development

• Have high engineering standards with respect to product usability, code maintainability, and documentation

• Excited by the prospect of working in a fast-paced and lean organization with evolving focuses and priorities

• Kind, communicative, resourceful, self-sufficient, curious, and able to work with internal and external stakeholders

• Reliable and predictable availability