UI Developer

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents 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 streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting 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 start-ups 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, data science and 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 an emphasis on pair-programming, testing and good process to help us produce high-quality code and applications very efficiently. Our focus is on delivering business value to the firm: we aim for simplicity wherever possible but build cutting-edge UIs when the business need is clear.

In this role, you will be expected to build and extend our core UI platform, use the platform to build business-critical applications, and work with a wide variety of teams to help them use the platform to build their own applications. You should be very comfortable with the ecosystem of tools & techniques within the modern web development environment, and you should have a deep passion for enabling other developers 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 consume 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.

BenefitsDiscretionary bonus eligibility Medical, dental, and vision insuranceHSA, FSA, and Dependent Care optionsEmployer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D InsuranceVoluntary Life & AD&D insurancePaid vacation plus paid holidaysRetirement plan with employer matchPaid parental leaveWellness Programs

Annual Base Salary Range : $200,000 USD - $250,000 USD