Python Developer Intern

Founded in 1999, Geneva Trading is a premier global principal trading firm with offices in Chicago, Dublin, and London. Our focus on trading excellence and technological innovation has built a best-in-class proprietary trading platform, allowing us to compete at the highest levels in global markets. We foster a culture of integrity, collaboration, and passion for progress, attracting top-tier talent and driving consistent success.

Intern With Geneva Trading

Geneva Trading is seeking ambitious, entrepreneurial students to join our DevOps team for a software engineering (Python) internship next summer. Our internship is a fast-paced, dynamic 10-week full-time paid position providing hands-on experience in the trading industry. Interns design solutions to complex problems and work on projects that directly impact the firm. You'll receive mentorship from industry professionals and participate in corporate training, teambuilding activities, and firmwide summer socials. The summer internship program is a proven path to full-time opportunities at Geneva Trading after graduation.

As a Python Developer (Intern) You Will

• Optimize existing scripting and tooling to implement nice-to-have features across the domain.
• Collaborate with Senior DevOps technologists to learn and offload project features.
• Gain hands-on experience with project planning, architecting, and modern CI/CD principles.
• Deploy, present, and experience your solutions in a mature trading system.
• Explore and integrate AI-driven tools (such as LLMs or coding assistants) to automate routine DevOps workflows and enhance developer productivity.
• Develop Python scripts to interface with AI APIs, assisting with intelligent log analysis, anomaly detection, or system alerting.

Required Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the Python programming language, data structures, and algorithms.
• Conceptual understanding of design patterns and scalable system architectures, defensive coding styles and techniques, and the ability to identify technical requirements and code design strategies to solve them.
• Basic familiarity or curiosity with the Linux operating system.
• Ability to troubleshoot and problem-solve, independently research solutions, and communicate technical problems effectively.
• Conceptual understanding of monitoring metrics and the role alerting/monitoring plays in effectively monitoring infrastructure.
• Ability to document processes and procedures in enough detail to enhance knowledge sharing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior internship experience using Python.
• Familiarity with leveraging AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate development and troubleshoot code.
• A foundational interest in how AI and machine learning concepts can be applied to operational workflows, trading infrastructure, or data pipelines.

Compensation

• Hourly Range: $35-40/hr.
• The final hourly rate will be dependent on the successful candidate's skills, experience, education, and qualifications.
• This role is a temporary position and therefore is not eligible for Geneva Trading's full-time employee benefits program.
• Application expected to close: 12/23/2026

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.