CAREERS

About the Data Engineer Internship:

Our data engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience with our team who is responsible for developing and maintaining the infrastructure to support data for firm wide use.

You will be working side by side with our experienced data engineers and you’ll receive ongoing feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the summer. Our internship program is the primary way we identify top engineers and it’s a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at Jump.

You will take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. You will apply your programming and analysis skills to maintain and develop our firm wide data infrastructure.

Other duties as assigned or needed.

Qualifications/Requirements:

Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following:

• Python development on Linux platform

• Strong understanding of data structures and threading models

• Ability to work with a team in a fast-paced environment, deploying new software daily

• Passion for solving complex problems and learning to build optimal solutions from scratch, instead of simply assembling things from existing libraries

• Interest in using knowledge from several areas -- such as data pipelining and database management -- to ensure firm wide data integrity

• Reliable and predictable availability

* No finance or economics study or work experience required

Also helpful, but not required:

• Past internship or job experience in a data engineering role is a plus

• Advanced coursework in algorithms, relational databases (SQL Server, Sybase MySQL)

• Exposure to data analytics tools such as Pandas