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.

In 2023, IMC acquired Altas Technologies, a rapidly growing algorithmic trading firm with the ambition of creating tomorrow’s most technically advanced trading stack. By combining their highly advanced trading strategies with IMC’s execution and scaling capabilities, this move strengthens our position in the market and is an important step towards ensuring stability and long-term growth for the firm. 

Your Core Responsibilities:

You will become part of a core Quantitative Development team consisting of ~5 people working with cutting-edge technologies on both greenfield projects as well as optimizing existing systems and applications. The team has full end-to-end ownership of their stack. In this role you will:

  • Build robust, fully automated, low-latency, high-throughput trading systems used to predict and trade equity and cryptocurrency markets. This includes real-time performant Machine Learning systems.
  • Design and build large-scale cutting-edge data analysis and computation infrastructure. This includes data processing engines that ingest large quantities of data in a time and memory-efficient manner.
  • Work together with researchers to tackle challenging problems of optimal execution: analyze tick data, estimate market impact, optimize execution algorithms and so forth
  • Optimize low latency exchange and market connectivity

 Your Skills and Experience:

  • Highly experienced in Python combined with experience with either C++ and/or Rust.
  • Experience with asynchronous/concurrent/multi-threaded and shared memory programming
  • Experience with deployment tools and Bash/scripting abilities
  • Hands-on experience with real-time, low-latency ML pipelines in high-performance environments is a strong plus
  • Experience with data processing pipelines, automated scheduling tools, and feature calculation engines is a strong plus
  • Experience in architecting significant scale container-style Microservice Architectures from design and testing (CI/CD) to execution, and deployment. 
  • Serious about clean code, simple but well-architected systems, and continuous improvement
  • A track record of contributing to open-source projects in machine learning, data science, or distributed systems is a plus

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.

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