Python Engineer | Python Performance
Jump Trading4 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve research and production infrastructure supporting trading efforts.
- Develop foundational libraries, backend systems, and workflow tooling for strategy research, testing, and deployment.
- Work across Python and C++ to balance researcher usability with performance-critical systems development.
- Partner with quantitative researchers and traders to translate research workflows and models into scalable production software.
- Improve system performance, algorithmic efficiency, scalability, and bottlenecks across distributed and cluster-based compute environments.
- Own projects end to end from design and implementation through testing, rollout, and continued improvement.
Requirements
- At least 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in Python.
- Experience designing and implementing highly algorithmic code and understanding data structures, algorithmic complexity, and efficient implementation.
- Experience building production systems in Linux environments and working with concurrent and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with cluster, cloud, or other large-scale compute environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent.
- Background in research infrastructure, high-performance computing, distributed systems, or performance engineering.
- Experience improving bottlenecks, scalability, or migrations from researcher-friendly tooling to higher-performance systems.
- Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs with engineers and quantitative users.
- Experience with Python/C++ interoperability, library development, and quantitative workflows is a bonus.
Benefits
- Private medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Travel medical insurance.
- Group pension scheme.
- Group life assurance and income protection schemes.
- Paid parental leave.
- Parking and commuter benefits.
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.