Python Engineer | Python Performance

Requirements:

• At least 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in Python
• Experience designing, analyzing, and implementing highly algorithmic code
• Experience building production systems in Linux environments
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithmic complexity, and efficient implementation
• Experience with concurrent and distributed systems
• Familiarity with cluster, cloud, or other large-scale compute environments
• Self-directed, intellectually curious, and comfortable taking ownership of meaningful technical problems
• Minimum academic qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent
• Background in research infrastructure, high-performance computing, distributed systems, or performance engineering
• Experience improving bottlenecks, scalability, or migration paths from researcher-friendly tooling into higher-performance systems
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly with both engineers and quantitative users

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design, build, and improve the research and production infrastructure that underpins Jump's trading efforts
• Work across a hybrid Python/C++ environment, balancing researcher usability with performance-critical systems development
• Partner closely with quantitative researchers and traders to translate research workflows, models, and ideas into scalable, maintainable software
• Develop foundational libraries, backend systems, and workflow tooling used to support strategy research, testing, and deployment
• Improve system performance, algorithmic efficiency, and scalability across distributed and cluster-based compute environments
• Own projects end to end, from design and implementation through testing, rollout, and ongoing improvement
• Contribute to the evolution of the platform as the team expands its research capabilities and compute infrastructure

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Python/C++ interoperability and library development
• Ability to work effectively with quantitative researchers and translate mathematical or theoretical ideas into practical software
• Exposure to time series analysis, optimization, simulation, numerical methods, or other quantitative workflows

Perks and Benefits:

• 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