Trading Engineer

At IMC, technology is not a department; it’s at the heart of everything we do. Developed in-house, our innovative software makes millions of trading decisions daily, and we win by making better and faster decisions than our competition.

Our Trading Reliability Engineering team plays a critical role at the heart of our complex environment. Making sure that we can release daily in a safe and controlled manner is a vital responsibility, as well as ensuring high availability, stability and performance. The team works closely with traders and a wide range of technologists such as developers, systems engineers, network engineers and performance engineers in a diverse technical landscape. One where many components interface and manage a high-volume data flow over a low-latency infrastructure to execute our trading strategies.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Troubleshooting and providing quick response to production issues but more importantly solving the root cause of problems in a structural way.
• Helping eliminate downtime using open source technologies where appropriate, translating trading requests into concrete technical requirements, and working with focus teams to create and implement new sustainable solutions.
• Coordinate, prioritise and plan the changes to our trading software to ensure smooth exchange or infrastructure migrations and quick time to market for new features and software.
• Working closely with developers to implement python changes to improve system reliability, stability and monitoring capabilities.

Your Skills and Experience: 

• 2+ years of experience as an SRE or System Engineer or DevOps Engineer or MLOps Engineer
• Experience with Kubernetes concepts, working with helm and debugging deployed workloads
• Development experience (Python preferable but not required) and solid understanding of common scripting tools including Bash
• Comfort working with Prometheus and Grafana
• Solid understanding of the Linux Operating System
• Experience with building and maintaining ETLs and DAGs (Airflow) is a plus
• Experience with database querying and working with large scale data sets is a plus
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP protocols
• A knack for troubleshooting
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• A proactive attitude and a strong drive to learn, develop yourself and get things done
• An interest in financial markets and working with financial concepts

About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.