Campus C++ Software Engineer (Intern)

Join Jump Trading's APAC C++ team as a Campus Intern and work on the systems that power live trading, risk infrastructure, backtesting, and post-trade analysis. You will ship production code, collaborate directly with trading, operations, and research teams, and own real problems that matter to the firm's global financial operations.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain the live trading system that connects strategies to exchanges, handling market data, order entry, and the full order lifecycle while optimizing for high performance and robustness
• Build business-specific trading infrastructure that supports the firm's expansion into new businesses and markets, enabling strategic initiatives and trading efficiency
• Design and develop risk infrastructure modules that monitor performance in real-time and apply pre-trade and post-trade controls to reduce the chance of outsized losses
• Build and maintain backtesting infrastructure used by researchers to evaluate systematic strategies against large-scale historical market data
• Produce datasets for traders and quantitative researchers by building high-throughput, reliable C++ compute engines that collect, organize, and enrich billions of data points about orders and market data daily
• Own production systems end to end, debugging real incidents, tracing data through the full pipeline, and fixing root causes

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with expected graduation after the internship
• 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 on Linux, including command line, debugging, and bare-metal environments
• The ability to write clean, production-quality code and take pride in the craft
• Self-driven and proactive with a natural instinct to take ownership and push through ambiguity
• The capacity to thrive in a fast-paced trading environment where priorities shift and you constantly pick up new skills
• Genuine curiosity about how systems, markets, and data flows work under the hood
• Comfort using AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT to move faster, with good judgment about when to trust output and when to question it
• Rigor with data, digging into large datasets to resolve complex issues rather than accepting easy conclusions

Nice to have

• Experience with system performance optimization
• Experience with Python
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Background in statistics or data analysis
• Finance and economics knowledge
• Competitive programming background

About Jump Trading

Jump Trading Group is a research-driven firm that empowers exceptional talent in mathematics, physics, and computer science to push scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets. The Core Development team architects, builds, and maintains world-class trading platforms and infrastructure. Candidates should be interested in working in an APAC office for their full-time role after graduation.