Trader

About the Role

Join Jump's centralized trading team in Shanghai as a trader. You will apply mathematics, physics, and computer science to global financial markets to fine-tune algorithmic strategies, manage risk, and debug challenging infrastructure issues, while collaborating across multiple departments. This is a golden opportunity for an experienced trader to leverage skills with a bottom-line impact on a global scale. What You'll Do

• Manage trading strategies daily and provide an impact in terms of discretionary sizing and tweaking of parameters.
• Develop a granular understanding of trading strategies, interweaving alpha, execution, and technology.
• Provide analytical support to the trading community regarding the global markets and trading team performance.
• Serve as an advisor across several different departments, providing new and innovative solutions for the complex problems we face.
• Develop an extensive understanding of latency and its impact on strategy performance.
• Enhance our use of available internal data, all with the aim of increasing performance and remaining best-in-class as an organization.
• Other duties as assigned or needed. What We're Looking For
• Passion for trading and financial markets.
• Proven success working with automated trading systems at a proprietary electronic trading firm strongly desired.
• Global market knowledge strongly desired.
• Strong understanding of market microstructure, as well as an understanding of wider macro factors driving markets.
• Ability to perform under pressure.
• Confidence, accountability, decisiveness.
• Inquisitive, self-starting personality coupled with the desire to be part of a highly functioning team environment.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Nice to Have
• Scripting language (e.g., Python or R)
• Networking nomenclature and architecture
• Shell scripting (ksh or bash)