Python Software Engineer
Python Software Engineer
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Job Description
At IMC technology is not a department; its 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.
IMCs Sydney based Engineering teams work on a wide variety of applications tools and functionalities including trading algorithm implementations option pricing calculating volatility simulation frameworks market risk applications trade reconciliation applications and data analysis & visualization tools for traders. We frequently need to develop not just the business applications themselves but also the tools that keep our development process at the cutting edge. We are currently looking to expand our software engineering teams across our Strategy Research tooling and Backbone teams.
The Strategy Developers work alongside our Sydneybased options research and trading teams in designing and implementing systematic trading strategies. You will be responsible for engineering efforts in a Pythonbased ecosystem that empowers our researchers and traders to develop strategies from initial prototypes to production. In this role you will also be involved in the tactical development of frontoffice trading analysis and visualization tools.
The Backbone Developers create scalable business critical applications and tools to automate tasks supporting IMCs Sydney MidOffice and Risk Management departments. They gather requirements and feedback from a range of internal stakeholders in order to implement creative automation solutions via innovative coding practices.
The Research Tooling Developers collaborates closely with APAC Quant Research and other engineering teams to build and enhance tools that drive cuttingedge quantitative research. Our systems empower researchers to run largescale computations on distributed clusters enabling the exploration of new trading strategies model training and back testing.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Develop test deploy and maintain highperformance Python applications.
- Work closely with traders researchers quants and fellow engineers to build scalable and reliable software solutions.
- Take ownership of endtoend development from requirements gathering to production deployment.
- Implement automation and optimization projects to enhance trading and research workflows.
- Apply advanced automated testing practices and leverage daily deployments to achieve agile and incremental benefits.
- Balance tradeoffs betweenlatency throughput simplicity scalability and maintainability in a complex technology landscape.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 5 years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on Python.
- Experience working with numerical computing and data processing frameworks such as Pandas NumPy SciPy Celery Dask Spark or Kubernetes.
- Strong problemsolving skills and the ability to proactively tackle technical challenges.
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with Docker Kubernetes and Linux environments.
- Exposure to distributed computing and modern cloudbased data processing technologies.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with crossfunctional teams including traders researchers and other engineers.
- Prior knowledge offinancial markets or trading is not required but curiosity and a willingness to learn are essential.
About Us
IMC is a leading global trading firm powered by a cuttingedge research environment and a worldclass technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe and Asia Pacific our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative highperformance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Employment Type
Full Time
