Campus C++ Software Engineer (Intern)
Jump Trading2 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeIntern
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance C++ live trading systems for market data, order entry, and order lifecycle processing.
- Develop business-specific trading platforms and infrastructure for new markets and strategic initiatives.
- Build real-time risk infrastructure implementing pre-trade and post-trade controls.
- Maintain backtesting infrastructure for evaluating systematic strategies against large-scale historical market data.
- Produce reliable, high-throughput datasets and compute engines for post-trade analysis.
- Debug production incidents, trace data through pipelines, and own root-cause fixes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in C++ with hands-on experience working with large-scale systems.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design, networking concepts, and operating systems.
- Solid debugging skills and the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases quickly.
- Comfort working in Linux environments, including command-line tools, debugging, and bare-metal systems.
- Clean production-quality coding, proactive ownership, cross-team collaboration, adaptability, and rigorous data analysis.
- Preferred qualifications include system performance optimization, Python, open-source contributions, statistics or data analysis, finance or economics knowledge, and competitive programming experience.
Benefits
- Candidates should be interested in working in Singapore for their full-time job after graduation.
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.