Trading Strategy Software Engineer

IMC
London, UK
25 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
£84,529.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Big Data Computer Programming Data Structures Java GUIs Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Python (Programming Language) Performance Tuning Big O Software Deployment Kotlin Information Technology
+2 more
Service Stack Programming Languages

Job description

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, 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

About the company

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.

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on adzuna.co.uk

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

1:20 min

Identifying multi-disciplinary talent for developer experience engineering roles

Hazal Mestci +1 · Coffee With Developers

3:28 min

Defining big data and machine learning fundamentals

Ayon Roy · LIVE

3:09 min

Understanding Kotlin Multiplatform and its compiler targets

Petar Marijanović · LIVE

3:01 min

Evaluating generated sorting algorithms and application memory complexity

Markus Walker Markus Walker · World Congress 2023

2:10 min

Why organizations combine big data and machine learning

Ayon Roy · LIVE

2:18 min

Recommended resources and frameworks for learning Kotlin natively

Iris Hunkeler · LIVE

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all