Trading Production Engineer
Jump Trading2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide primary operational coverage for the team's global production environment during U.S. trading hours.
- Monitor end-to-end trading workflows, including market connectivity, data availability and quality, and scheduled model and optimization processes.
- Respond to alerts, failed jobs, and degraded systems, resolving routine and moderately complex issues and escalating deeper problems to developers.
- Build understanding of systems, dependencies, and trading workflows.
- Maintain and improve monitoring, alerting, documentation, and support processes.
- Automate repetitive work and implement safe, well-scoped code or configuration changes.
- Coordinate regional handoffs and communicate with quantitative researchers, engineers, and middle-office teams.
Requirements
- Experience in production engineering, trade support, systems operations, or a related function.
- Electronic trading experience is preferred but not required.
- Working proficiency with Python, Linux, and shell scripting, including reading and debugging existing code and making tested, well-scoped changes.
- Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, automation, data pipelines, or scheduled production workflows.
- Systematic and calm troubleshooting approach with sound judgment about independent action and escalation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative, self-directed working style.
- Interest in production ownership, reliability, and operational improvement.
- Reliable and predictable availability.
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.