Software Engineer

About Jane Street

Jane Street works differently. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we trade on more than 200 trading venues across 45
countries and help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative
analysis, but our success is driven by our people.

Our bright, beautiful offices in the heart of New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam are open and buzzing with
conversation. We come from many backgrounds and encourage travel between offices to share perspectives. Some of our best
ideas come from bumping into a visiting colleague at the office coffee bar.

Markets move fast. Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention—of new trading strategies, technology,
and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. They tend to help each other and prioritize
teamwork over titles.

We invest heavily in teaching and training. There’s a library and a classroom in every office because deepening your
understanding of something is considered real work. Guest lectures, classes, and conferences round out the intellectual
exchanges that happen every day.

People grow into long careers at Jane Street because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build,
and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.

About the Position

We're always hiring Software Engineers for all of our offices. Technology is at the core of how we approach our work, and
Engineers are intimately tied to every area of the business.

We are big believers in functional programming, using OCaml, a statically-typed functional programming language, as our
primary development language. We also believe in the value of open source software, using it in our daily work and releasing
hundreds of thousands of lines of our code as open source.

About You
• Top-notch programming skills
• Deep experience with—and love for—technology. There’s no specific checklist; we use software to approach a variety of
problems, so we’re interested in everything from machine learning to systems administration to programming language
design
• Strong interpersonal skills. Software engineering at Jane Street is highly collaborative, and we are looking for people who
can work effectively in small, close-knit teams
• Fluency in English required

We don’t expect you to have experience with functional programming, OCaml, or finance; we’re happy to hire talented
Engineers and teach them what they need to know.

If you'd like to get an idea of what we cover in our software engineering interview process, you can read our series of blog posts
discussing what we do and don't look for.