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# C++ Software Engineer, Early Careers

- **Company:** IMC
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Automation of Tests, C++ (Programming Language), Profiling, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Software Engineering, Caching, Production Code, C++14
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nl.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=714cf156664fcf93

## About the Role

* 2-3 years of full-time professional work experience post-graduation
 * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
 * Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures
 * Solid programming skills in modern C++ (C++17 or later)
 * An interest in how software actually runs on hardware: memory, caches, networking
 * A high degree of flexibility and adaptability: willing and able to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment
 * Ability to solve problems creatively and proactively
 * Curiosity and a willingness to learn. Interest in financial markets; previous knowledge is not required.

## Description

As a software engineer, you'll work in multidisciplinary teams alongside other engineers, traders, researchers, and quants, both locally and across our global offices, taking ownership of end-to-end product development, from requirements gathering to production. You'll write reliable, high-performance software while balancing time to production with quality and testability. Advanced automated testing lets us deploy to production daily. Within a complex landscape of varying systems and technologies, you'll be constantly challenged to consider trade-offs between latency, throughput, simplicity, scalability and maintainability.

 * Building and maintaining the systems that connect IMC to exchanges: parsing market data feed, managing order entry, and keeping us fast and reliable on the path where latency counts.
 * Implementing and optimising execution logic in close collaboration with traders and quants, translating trading ideas into production code.
 * Working with our hardware teams to integrate FPGA-based systems and low-latency network solutions into our trading stack.
 * Measuring, profiling and improving the performance of our systems.
 * Developing expertise across the entire software development lifecycle, learning from experienced engineers along the way.


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