Campus UI Software Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading is a technology and research-driven financial markets firm that develops advanced software, hardware, and trading infrastructure. The Campus UI Software Engineer Intern will build web-based applications using TypeScript, Python, and modern web frameworks while working with real-time trading platform components. The role includes contributing to production code and participating in development, testing, and release processes using Agile methodologies.

What you'll do:

• Our Web Dev / UI software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Trading
• During your internship, you will use advanced Typescript, Python, and modern Web frameworks to build Web-based applications that interact with several components of our real-time trading platform
• Our internship program is the primary way we identify top young software engineers for our core development team, and it’s a proven path for earning full-time or return internship opportunities at Jump Trading in Chicago
• You will take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies
• Other duties as assigned or needed

What they're looking for:

• Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following:
• Web development using Python and Typescript
• Python development on Linux platform
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, 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, instead of simply assembling things from existing libraries Interest in using knowledge from several areas -- such as hardware, networking, OS design -- to produce extremely high-performance software
• Reliable and predictable availability
• International students are encouraged to apply. We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions
• Comfort in React
• Claude code in a real work environment
• Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus

Benefits:

• INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are encouraged to apply. We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions.
• We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions.