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Jump Trading Group is committed to world-class research. We empower exceptional talent in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive spirit. We believe in winning together and unlocking individual talent through collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk-adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund startups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
Jump Trading has a global team of technologists who architect, build, and maintain our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software & hardware engineering, sophisticated front-end technologies, and data science research to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.
We are looking for an experienced UI front-end developer to join our UI platform team. We operate in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, agile environment with emphasis on pair-programming, testing, and good process to help us produce high-quality code and applications efficiently. Our focus is on delivering business value: we aim for simplicity wherever possible but build cutting-edge UIs when the business need is clear.
In this role, you will be responsible for building and extending our core UI platform, using the platform to build business-critical applications, and working with a wide variety of teams to help them use the platform to build applications. You should be very comfortable with modern web development tools and techniques, and you should have a deep for enabling others to be more productive.
Skills You'll Need:
- At least 4+ years of professional experience building web-based UIs
- Extensive experience with React, TypeScript, WebSocket protocols, REST, and UI unit-testing
- Very comfortable working in a highly agile, collaborative methodology (sprints, pair-programming, testing, estimation, etc.)
- Deep empathy for developers who will build in your platform and foresight to deliver improvements while also managing change carefully
- Reliable and predictable availability
Bonus Points:
- An eye for quality design
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, containers, CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working in trading / finance.
If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both intern and full-time opportunities.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation plus paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs
Annual Base Salary Range
$200,000—$250,000 USD