Software Developer Intern (Trading Technology)

Location: Montreal, Canada

Company

Diversified trading firm combining sophisticated technology and proprietary capital to operate across global financial markets and non-traditional strategies.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and deploy proprietary software solutions for network development initiatives and trading businesses.
• Build advanced trading, analysis, risk, monitoring, and automation systems.
• Develop MLOps and high-availability inference systems, data pipelines, agentic/RAG/MCP tools, GPU optimization solutions, and full-stack web applications and dashboards.
• Research large data sets using data-driven statistical analytics.
• Identify innovative solutions to complex problems and communicate implementation proposals clearly.
• Collaborate with software developers, quantitative traders, researchers, and business analysts in cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's, master's, or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related scientific discipline.
• Expected graduation between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Exposure to multithreaded applications, computational intelligence, algorithms, real-time programming, or GUI programming.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Strong software development skills in at least one of Python, JavaScript with Node, React, or Angular, C++, Ruby, C#, Go, or Java.
• Curiosity and ability to learn and absorb new technologies quickly.

Culture & Benefits

• Challenging internship project advised by a software engineer, with the goal of deployment during the internship.
• Mentorship focused on goals, challenges, and professional development.
• Educational, social, and team-building activities throughout the summer.
• Fully furnished apartments located close to the office.
• Options course taught by an experienced trader and a technology immersion course covering the relationship between technology and trading.