Jump Crypto | Validator/Blockchain Infrastructure Manager

Jump Crypto

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Capital Markets 👥 51 employees 📍 Chicago, IL, US Est. 2015

Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015, Jump Crypto has grown into a world class, dynamic team of high performing players across a range of functions. Today, we play an impor…

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.

Our trading teams are each comprised of a dynamic group of traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers who work together to examine the global markets, seeking to understand the complexities of various traded products and exchanges. They leverage their impeccable statistical analysis and data mining skills, using the results of their research to make forecasts and develop profitable predictive trading models.

What you’ll do:

• Help build, manage, and maintain a sophisticated validator infrastructure and tooling of the world’s top proprietary trading firms.
• Take responsibility for a wide range of on-chain infrastructure, including validators, light clients, and RPC nodes
• Support Jump’s new business initiatives by helping configure new infrastructure across DeFi trading and MPC custody.
• Experiment with the newest technologies and keep your finger on the pulse of new developments in the blockchain ecosystem.
• Contribute to external partnerships that directly impact Jump’s bottom line.
• Other Duties assigned as needed

Skills you’ll need:

• A passion for blockchain technology.
• Willingness to move quickly, work in a flat, fast-paced team and juggle competing priorities.
• Previous experience with managing proof-of-stake blockchain infrastructure, preferably on Solana or Ethereum.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, Kubernetes, and managing cloud-based infrastructure.
• Degree in computer science, math, similar technical field or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with on-chain trading, DeFi, and risk management is preferred, but not required.
• Reliable and Predictable availbaility

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