Trading Strategy Software Engineer

Location: London, United Kingdom

Department: Development (Group)

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.

Your Core Responsibilities:

You will work together with traders, researchers, quants, and fellow engineers. You will take ownership of the end-to-end product development process for deliver 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. Key responsibilities include:

• 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 in Java, 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.

Your Skills and Experience:

• 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)
• Ability to work independently, analyze business requirements, communicate with stakeholders, take full ownership of the solutions you build and deliver;
• Highly adaptable and able to thrive in uncertain, rapidly evolving environments;
• Master’s or PhD degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science or a related field;
• Experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin) or Python;
• Advanced math and quantitative skills are a plus;
• 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. We constantly evolve our technology stack and look for tools that best suit the problems at hand. If a new technology holds promise, we actively explore, adopt, and develop it.