We'll be hosting a virtual Electronic Trading Challenge (ETC), a day-long programming contest where participants compete against each other in a simulated market. There are cash prizes for the winning teams and credits will be provided for breakfast, lunch, and dinner delivery.

Date: Saturday 31st July 2021 from 9am to 5pm HKT

You must sign up as a team of three to four participants. All teammates must be present at event check-in in order to be eligible for prizes. Unfortunately, we are not accepting single participant registrations for our virtual ETCs.

This event is intended for self-identifying women and gender expansive university students at any level of study in the APAC region.

Sign-ups will close on Sunday 18th July 2021 at 11:59pm HKT.

All team members must join ETC from a laptop or desktop and have Zoom and Slack accounts. You should plan to have access to a reliable internet connection that allows for video conferencing for the duration of the event.

Jane Street asserts no ownership over any content created in the competition. Jane Street's use of the content created is limited to reviewing participants' work to ensure fairness of the competition.

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm that uses innovative technology, a scientific approach, and a deep understanding of markets to guide our business. We are a global liquidity provider and market maker, operating around the clock and around the globe, out of offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam.

The markets change rapidly, and we need to change faster still. Every day, we come to work with new problems to solve, new systems to build and new theories to test. We’re always looking for people to join us and help come up with that next great idea.

Software is an integral part of how we approach problems, whether we’re designing a trading strategy, managing the operational complexities of a new trade-flow, or administering servers in locations across the globe. Trading is a demanding business, and that means the standards for our software are high on every front, including clarity, performance, safety, and turnaround time.

We use OCaml, a statically-typed functional programming language, as our primary development language. Languages in this family, like Haskell, SML, F# and Scala, are sometimes seen as powerful but impractical, in part because they’re supposedly too difficult for the average programmer, and in part because no one else seems to use them.

For more information about events happening at Jane Street please visit our events page.

Hope to see you there!

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