Jump Crypto is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. We're builders, partners, and traders who take a long-term view of crypto's prospects and operate to unlock the full potential of open, community-driven networks. Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015, we've grown into a dynamic and seasoned team of high performing players across a range of functions. Today, we play an important role in the development of some of the largest and most innovative crypto communities.

Jump Crypto is the crypto division of Jump Trading Group, a research driven quantitative trading firm that's one of the largest traders by volume across traditional asset classes.  For more on our history, culture and the road ahead read our blog here. To learn more, please visit us at www.jumpcrypto.com and follow us at @JumpCryptoHQ.

As a Trader, you have an opportunity to join a dynamic group of people focused on researching, interpreting and capitalizing on the global trading markets. The ideal candidate for this position will be interested in learning how they can apply their skills in a quantitative trading environment. You should have a can-do attitude around supporting the team in a variety of ways and be motivated by this chance to learn and work alongside a team of experienced traders and technologists. As a trader you will be working 4 days a week (Sun-Wed OR Wed-Sat) alongside others trading this 24/7 asset class.

What You’ll Do:

• Familiarity and interest in all lines of the business (outside trading); willingness to understand business priorities and to adapt.
• Execution of trading strategies.
• Monitor trading positions and work with clearing and operations team to reconcile trades and position breaks throughout the shift.
• Build and maintain DevOps toolkit for the production trading system including configuration management, process management, deployment, monitoring, data collection, and analysis.
• Troubleshooting production trading issues, improving trading desk processes.
• Proficiency in (or ability to learn about) quant trading efforts, exchange trading setups, and any trading-related areas.
• Should own and take responsibility for team-wide projects beyond day-to-day trading coverage.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

• Interest in cryptocurrencies and an understanding of the various currencies, exchanges, etc. is preferred.
• Comfortable with Python and the ability to write and understand simple to moderate scripts.
• Familiarity with a Linux environment.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and oral.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion in making decisions.
• Aptitude and preference for working in a highly collaborative environment.
• At least 3+ years trading experience.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

Jump Crypto is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. We're builders, partners, and traders who take a long-term view of crypto's prospects and operate to unlock the full potential of open, community-driven networks. Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015, we've grown into a dynamic and seasoned team of high performing players across a range of functions. Today, we play an important role in the development of some of the largest and most innovative crypto communities.

Jump Crypto is the crypto division of Jump Trading Group; a research driven quantitative trading firm that's one of the largest traders by volume across traditional asset classes.

What You'll Do:

As a Software Engineer at Jump Crypto, you will collaborate extensively with traders, quantitative researchers and technologists to evolve, improve, and maintain all elements of the trading infrastructure, including feeds, gateways and strategies. The ideal candidate will be passionate about development and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. In this role, a candidate can expect exposure to a wide range of interesting and challenging technical problems involving high performance computing, software design, big data and will gain understanding of trading on centralized and decentralized exchanges. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low latency solutions. There may be other duties as assigned as well. The trading team sees technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to cool cutting edge technologies in the fast-evolving crypto space.

Skills You'll Need:

• At least 3+ years of strong C++ development experience in a Linux environment, with an understanding of templates and both low level and high-level optimization
• Self-directed and comfortable taking ownership of projects and responsibilities, strong work ethic
• Understanding of computer systems (operating systems, networks) and how to leverage that knowledge to build and debug high performance distributed systems
• Experience in creating and debugging multi-threaded applications
• Desire to work within a collaborative, team-driven environment
• Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Reliable and predictable availability

Bonus Points:

• Exposure to Python or a willingness to quickly become proficient
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS) and familiarity with internet protocols WS, HTTP
• Interest in cryptocurrencies and experience with trading or execution systems

Benefits include:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid vacation
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness Programs

About Jump and Jump Crypto

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 Crypto, the crypto division of Jump Trading Group, is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. We're builders, partners, and traders who take a long-term view of crypto's prospects and operate to unlock the full potential of open, community-driven networks. Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015, we've grown into a dynamic and seasoned team of high performing players across a range of functions. Today, we play an important role in the development of some of the largest and most innovative crypto communities.

As a Campus [Intern / Full-time] Researcher at Jump Crypto, you will have the opportunity to partner with senior Leaders of Jump Crypto and other senior researchers to help shape the direction of our strategic efforts. The Researcher role is dynamic. Depending on your strengths and interests, you may be looking for macro-level trends that will inform the group’s future efforts, heads down on a nuanced issue advising our engineers or partners, producing valuable research reports, or advising our business development team on partnerships. You’ll use your deep knowledge of the crypto industry, computer science, distributed systems, consensus algorithms, networking, game theory and other disciplines relevant to blockchain technology to help identify, vet, and propose new business initiatives. The ideal candidate will know their strengths and contribute deeply to areas where they believe they can add the most value.

What You’ll Do:

• Monitor the broader crypto landscape and identify new opportunities for Jump Crypto.
• Translate industry trends into actionable architecture, product, or investment strategy.
• Aggregate information from technical repositories, research reports, white papers, industry relationships, Jump Crypto’s own data, as well as anecdotal feedback from our team or partners to produce valuable content, recommendations, or general advice to guide our group’s strategy.
• Look to empower the broader Jump Crypto team through great research that facilitates better deals, more robust product insights for our engineers, and more strategic partnerships for our investment team.
• Make material contributions to Jump Crypto’s partners through direct contributions or advice on code, tokenomics modeling, strategy, and other areas.
• Produce actionable insights on incomplete data to drive decision making on investments and product strategy.
• Identify early-stage opportunities for our investments, engineering, market making, and trading operations.
• Feed research insights on new trends (such as MEV) or projects back to the group through strong writing or effective presentations.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

• Obsessed with the crypto industry and willing to follow its ever-evolving landscape to help guide the group’s efforts optionally on macro-level strategy or specific project architecture.
• Well versed in one, or many disciplines material to blockchain development including, but not limited to, smart contracts, cryptography, crypto-economics, networking, consensus algorithms, distributed systems, and other related technologies.
• An excellent communicator across both written and verbal channels, and able to effectively convey technical concepts clearly to the appropriate audience.
• Able to balance open-ended, blue-sky research with actionable results.
• Excited by the prospect of working in a fast-paced and lean organization with evolving focuses and priorities.
• Kind, communicative, resourceful, self-sufficient, and able to work with internal and external stakeholders.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

The estimated base salary for this role is $200,000 per year.

Benefits include:

• Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits

About Jump and Jump Crypto

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 Crypto, the crypto division of Jump Trading Group, is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. We're builders, partners, and traders who take a long-term view of crypto's prospects and operate to unlock the full potential of open, community-driven networks. Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015, we've grown into a dynamic and seasoned team of high performing players across a range of functions. Today, we play an important role in the development of some of the largest and most innovative crypto communities.

As a Campus Intern Researcher at Jump Crypto, you will have the opportunity to partner with senior Leaders of Jump Crypto and other senior researchers to help shape the direction of our strategic efforts. The Researcher role is dynamic. Depending on your strengths and interests, you may be looking for macro-level trends that will inform the group’s future efforts, heads down on a nuanced issue advising our engineers or partners, producing valuable research reports, or advising our business development team on partnerships. You’ll use your deep knowledge of the crypto industry, computer science, distributed systems, consensus algorithms, networking, game theory and other disciplines relevant to blockchain technology to help identify, vet, and propose new business initiatives. The ideal candidate will know their strengths and contribute deeply to areas where they believe they can add the most value.

What You’ll Do:

• Monitor the broader crypto landscape and identify new opportunities for Jump Crypto.
• Translate industry trends into actionable architecture, product, or investment strategy.
• Aggregate information from technical repositories, research reports, white papers, industry relationships, Jump Crypto’s own data, as well as anecdotal feedback from our team or partners to produce valuable content, recommendations, or general advice to guide our group’s strategy.
• Look to empower the broader Jump Crypto team through great research that facilitates better deals, more robust product insights for our engineers, and more strategic partnerships for our investment team.
• Make material contributions to Jump Crypto’s partners through direct contributions or advice on code, tokenomics modeling, strategy, and other areas.
• Produce actionable insights on incomplete data to drive decision making on investments and product strategy.
• Identify early-stage opportunities for our investments, engineering, market making, and trading operations.
• Feed research insights on new trends (such as MEV) or projects back to the group through strong writing or effective presentations.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

• Obsessed with the crypto industry and willing to follow its ever-evolving landscape to help guide the group’s efforts optionally on macro-level strategy or specific project architecture.
• Well versed in one, or many disciplines material to blockchain development including, but not limited to, smart contracts, cryptography, crypto-economics, networking, consensus algorithms, distributed systems, and other related technologies.
• An excellent communicator across both written and verbal channels, and able to effectively convey technical concepts clearly to the appropriate audience.
• Able to balance open-ended, blue-sky research with actionable results.
• Excited by the prospect of working in a fast-paced and lean organization with evolving focuses and priorities.
• Kind, communicative, resourceful, self-sufficient, and able to work with internal and external stakeholders.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

About Jump and Jump Crypto

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 Crypto, the crypto division of Jump Trading Group, is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. We're builders, partners, and traders who take a long-term view of crypto's prospects and operate to unlock the full potential of open, community-driven networks. Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015, we've grown into a dynamic and seasoned team of high performing players across a range of functions. Today, we play an important role in the development of some of the largest and most innovative crypto communities.

As a Campus [Intern / Full-time] Researcher at Jump Crypto, you will have the opportunity to partner with senior Leaders of Jump Crypto and other senior researchers to help shape the direction of our strategic efforts. The Researcher role is dynamic. Depending on your strengths and interests, you may be looking for macro-level trends that will inform the group’s future efforts, heads down on a nuanced issue advising our engineers or partners, producing valuable research reports, or advising our business development team on partnerships. You’ll use your deep knowledge of the crypto industry, computer science, distributed systems, consensus algorithms, networking, game theory and other disciplines relevant to blockchain technology to help identify, vet, and propose new business initiatives. The ideal candidate will know their strengths and contribute deeply to areas where they believe they can add the most value.

What You’ll Do:

• Monitor the broader crypto landscape and identify new opportunities for Jump Crypto.
• Translate industry trends into actionable architecture, product, or investment strategy.
• Aggregate information from technical repositories, research reports, white papers, industry relationships, Jump Crypto’s own data, as well as anecdotal feedback from our team or partners to produce valuable content, recommendations, or general advice to guide our group’s strategy.
• Look to empower the broader Jump Crypto team through great research that facilitates better deals, more robust product insights for our engineers, and more strategic partnerships for our investment team.
• Make material contributions to Jump Crypto’s partners through direct contributions or advice on code, tokenomics modeling, strategy, and other areas.
• Produce actionable insights on incomplete data to drive decision making on investments and product strategy.
• Identify early-stage opportunities for our investments, engineering, market making, and trading operations.
• Feed research insights on new trends (such as MEV) or projects back to the group through strong writing or effective presentations.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

• Obsessed with the crypto industry and willing to follow its ever-evolving landscape to help guide the group’s efforts optionally on macro-level strategy or specific project architecture.
• Well versed in one, or many disciplines material to blockchain development including, but not limited to, smart contracts, cryptography, crypto-economics, networking, consensus algorithms, distributed systems, and other related technologies.
• An excellent communicator across both written and verbal channels, and able to effectively convey technical concepts clearly to the appropriate audience.
• Able to balance open-ended, blue-sky research with actionable results.
• Excited by the prospect of working in a fast-paced and lean organization with evolving focuses and priorities.
• Kind, communicative, resourceful, self-sufficient, and able to work with internal and external stakeholders.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

The estimated base salary for this role is $200,000 per year.

About Jump and Jump Crypto

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 Crypto, the crypto division of Jump Trading Group, is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. We're builders, partners, and traders who take a long-term view of crypto's prospects and operate to unlock the full potential of open, community-driven networks. Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015, we've grown into a dynamic and seasoned team of high performing players across a range of functions. Today, we play an important role in the development of some of the largest and most innovative crypto communities.

As a Campus [Intern / Full-time] Researcher at Jump Crypto, you will have the opportunity to partner with senior Leaders of Jump Crypto and other senior researchers to help shape the direction of our strategic efforts. The Researcher role is dynamic. Depending on your strengths and interests, you may be looking for macro-level trends that will inform the group’s future efforts, heads down on a nuanced issue advising our engineers or partners, producing valuable research reports, or advising our business development team on partnerships. You’ll use your deep knowledge of the crypto industry, computer science, distributed systems, consensus algorithms, networking, game theory and other disciplines relevant to blockchain technology to help identify, vet, and propose new business initiatives. The ideal candidate will know their strengths and contribute deeply to areas where they believe they can add the most value.

What You’ll Do:

• Monitor the broader crypto landscape and identify new opportunities for Jump Crypto.
• Translate industry trends into actionable architecture, product, or investment strategy.
• Aggregate information from technical repositories, research reports, white papers, industry relationships, Jump Crypto’s own data, as well as anecdotal feedback from our team or partners to produce valuable content, recommendations, or general advice to guide our group’s strategy.
• Look to empower the broader Jump Crypto team through great research that facilitates better deals, more robust product insights for our engineers, and more strategic partnerships for our investment team.
• Make material contributions to Jump Crypto’s partners through direct contributions or advice on code, tokenomics modeling, strategy, and other areas.
• Produce actionable insights on incomplete data to drive decision making on investments and product strategy.
• Identify early-stage opportunities for our investments, engineering, market making, and trading operations.
• Feed research insights on new trends (such as MEV) or projects back to the group through strong writing or effective presentations.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

• Obsessed with the crypto industry and willing to follow its ever-evolving landscape to help guide the group’s efforts optionally on macro-level strategy or specific project architecture.
• Well versed in one, or many disciplines material to blockchain development including, but not limited to, smart contracts, cryptography, crypto-economics, networking, consensus algorithms, distributed systems, and other related technologies.
• An excellent communicator across both written and verbal channels, and able to effectively convey technical concepts clearly to the appropriate audience.
• Able to balance open-ended, blue-sky research with actionable results.
• Excited by the prospect of working in a fast-paced and lean organization with evolving focuses and priorities.
• Kind, communicative, resourceful, self-sufficient, and able to work with internal and external stakeholders.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

Benefits include:

• Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits