Software Engineer | Market Data Systems
Jump Trading2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and build high-performance real-time streaming systems for trader-facing GUI applications.
- Ingest, process, and distribute high volumes of market data with extremely low latency and high reliability.
- Deliver accurate and efficient tick-to-trade data from colocated trading systems to latency-sensitive applications.
- Collaborate with trading, infrastructure, and support teams.
- Make architectural decisions, set technical direction, and mentor other engineers.
- Operate, support, and debug systems under real-time production load.
- Write reliable, readable, and testable code and provide thoughtful code reviews.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience building production software in performance-critical environments.
- Strong experience with C++ and Rust in low-latency, high-throughput systems.
- Demonstrated ability to architect and implement real-time data pipelines and streaming systems.
- Experience with distributed, high-volume data such as market data or equivalent real-time streaming domains.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, memory management, and lock-free or low-contention designs.
- Experience building systems for colocated or latency-sensitive environments.
- Willingness to take ownership, guide technical direction, and mentor engineers.
- Preferred experience includes Rust developer community involvement, network programming with TCP/UDP or multicast, and Linux internals and performance tuning.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options.
- Employer-paid group term life and AD&D insurance, plus voluntary life and AD&D insurance.
- Paid vacation and holidays.
- Retirement plan with employer match.
- Paid parental leave.
- Wellness programs.
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a privately held quantitative and high-frequency trading firm that designs low-latency systems and models to trade global markets across asset classes, including equities, futures, options, and cryptocurrencies. It trades its own capital rather than selling software or services, and operates from Chicago with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia; the firm was founded in 1999. Affiliates include Jump Crypto for digital assets and the venture arm Jump Capital.