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 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. 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.

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.

About Us

IMC is a leading trading firm, known worldwide for our advanced, low-latency technology and world-class execution capabilities. Over the past 30 years, we’ve been a stabilizing force in the financial markets – providing the essential liquidity our counterparties depend on. Across offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented employees are united by our entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional culture, and commitment to giving back. It's a strong foundation that allows us to grow and add new capabilities, year after year. From entering dynamic new markets, to developing a state-of-the-art research environment and diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to imagine what could be and work together to make it happen.