As a Quantitative Developer, you will work on a core team of technologists that build and improve the platforms that drive the trading team. You will work closely with the quantitative researchers to create and improve research, trading infrastructure, improve the scalability of the production systems, maintaining the production trading environment, troubleshooting problems, and developing software to automate and improve deployment, configuration, validation.
The team is looking for someone who will be passionate about development and demonstrates intellectual curiosity and an ability to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment.
What You'll Do:
- Full cycle development including researching and prod system, writing, testing & debugging code, deployment of finished code into the production environment and ensuring that all code is checked into the source code control system.
- Direct support of end users, trouble-shooting problems and upgrading applications
- Monitoring, troubleshooting, break/fix of production trading system
- Other duties as assigned or needed
Skills You’ll Need:
- Efficient in python, C++ and able to develop/maintain code for prod applications
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Must be extremely detail-oriented
- Proven success working with large data sets
- Self-directed and comfortable taking ownership of projects and responsibilities.
- Reliable and predictable availability
Skills Required
- Proficient in Python and C++ for production applications
- Experience with full-cycle development: coding, testing, debugging, deployment, and source control
- Experience maintaining and troubleshooting production trading or low-latency systems
- Proven success working with large data sets
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Extremely detail-oriented with reliable and predictable availability
- Self-directed and able to take ownership of projects
Jump Trading Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Pay is considered very competitive for revenue‑adjacent and technical roles, with strong total packages when team performance is solid. Compensation structures align outcomes closely with impact, creating high satisfaction on strong desks.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, and vision, with wellness programs and employer‑paid life/AD&D also highlighted. These offerings are portrayed as robust and compare favorably with similar employers.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is repeatedly noted, with mentions of a pension as well. Together these indicate strong retirement backing relative to many employers.
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What We Do
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.
