Trading Strategy Software Engineer

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 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;


• Buidling 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.

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;


• 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 is a huge plus;


• 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.