C Software Engineer

Job Description

IMC is a leading global market maker using algorithmic trading and advanced technology to trade across multiple venues worldwide. We provide liquidity to the crypto and traditional financial markets driving efficiencies for buyers and sellers.

WHAT YOULL BE DOING

As a C Software Engineer youll be joining and shaping the future of our core engineering team. You will design code test and optimize our proprietary lowlatency trading system. The right candidate for this role will be comfortable working autonomously making decisions and working in a fastpaced flat team structure.

Your main responsibilities:

• Collaborate on developing our highly competitive ultralowlatency trading platform consisting of market data delivery and order submission subsystems
• Design and implement stateoftheart industryleading trade execution and connectivity solutions
• You will be part of our algorithmic trading strategies team that is responsible for all automated trading algorithms so that your experience and knowledge will have direct impact on our production
• Improve the system performance by optimizing network access hardware utilization and programming execution
• Stay on top of updates to exchange protocols

Requirements

• You have a Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Mathematics Physics or a related field
• You have excellent programming skills using C in a Linux (or Unixlike) environment
• You possess the ability and desire to write simple wellstructured and clean code that is easy to maintain
• You have indepth knowledge of lowlevel network and system programming and have ideally experience in developing lowlatency systems
• You have a solid grasp of computer science algorithms memory and concurrency models CPUarchitecture operating systems networks and performance optimization
• Experience in statistics largescale data processing systems machine learning and/or gridbased computing is a big plus
• No finance background is necessary or expected.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

At IMC no two projects or any two days are the same. You can expect a dynamic fastpaced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges. One of the most exciting aspects of the job is our quick feedback loop.

Our workforce is just as varied. IMCers are drawn from a broad range of nationalities and backgrounds; what they have in common is their deep technical expertise extraordinary smarts and highly collaborative approach. We give people lots of responsibility and the support they need to make an impact from day one.

We promise you a flat structure and an open collaborative culture that stimulates the sharing of ideas knowledge and technology between our different teams and offices.