At a Glance
- Tasks: Develop high-performance software for trading applications and collaborate closely with traders.
- Company: IMC, a global trading firm with a cutting-edge tech environment.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, health benefits, remote work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic, collaborative culture with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Join a team that drives innovation in trading technology and makes a real impact.
- Qualifications: 3+ years of software engineering experience and strong programming skills required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
At IMC, technology is at the core of everything we do. Our innovative in-house software drives millions of trading decisions daily, allowing us to outperform the competition through faster, more effective decision-making.
Based in London & Amsterdam, IMC's Trading Strategy Software Engineers deliver a wide variety of applications, systems and tools, including trading algorithm implementations, options pricing, volatility calculations, simulation frameworks, and data analysis & visualization tools for traders.
You will take ownership of the end-to-end product development process for delivering high-impact projects - from requirements gathering to production deployment. Your goal is to deliver high-performance, reliable software using frequent iterations to get quick feedback and shorten our time-to-market.
Close collaboration with traders to gain a deep understanding of Trading strategies and implement them optimally; building cutting-edge solutions by developing, testing, deploying, tuning, and maintaining a variety of applications, algorithms, new research infrastructures, and automation for Trading Teams; continuously improving functional and operational sides of Strategy systems to enhance user experience and overall system performance.
- At least 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer with excellent programming abilities;
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, memory models, and concurrency models;
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills and a keen interest in applying them to the Trading field;
- Prior experience having worked in related industries (ideally within financial services);
- Master’s or PhD degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science or a related field;
- Experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin) or Python;
- Experience with and interest in building information-rich user-facing applications, GUIs, UXs is a plus;
- Experience with large-scale data and research pipelines compute clusters is a plus.
In our current Tech stack we work with Java 21+ and Python 3 as the main programming languages to implement our Strategy software. IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
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