C++ Software Engineer, Early Careers

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 Amsterdam-based C Execution development teams work on software that sits directly in the latency-critical loop of our technology stack and touches every part of our organisation. We connect IMC to exchanges around the world process massive volumes of market data in real time execute complex trading algorithms and integrate advanced hardware solutions where software alone isnt fast enough.

As a software engineer youll work in multidisciplinary teams alongside other engineers traders researchers and quants both locally and across our global offices taking ownership of end-to-end product development from requirements gathering to production. Youll write reliable high-performance software while balancing time to production with quality and testability. Advanced automated testing lets us deploy to production daily. Within a complex landscape of varying systems and technologies youll be constantly challenged to consider trade-offs between latency throughput simplicity scalability and maintainability.

• Building and maintaining the systems that connect IMC to exchanges: parsing market data feed managing order entry and keeping us fast and reliable on the path where latency counts.

• Implementing and optimising execution logic in close collaboration with traders and quants translating trading ideas into production code.

• Working with our hardware teams to integrate FPGA-based systems and low-latency network solutions into our trading stack.

• Measuring profiling and improving the performance of our systems.

• Developing expertise across the entire software development lifecycle learning from experienced engineers along the way.

• 2-3 years of full-time professional work experience post-graduation

• Bachelors or Masters degreein Engineering Computer Science or a related field

• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures

• Solid programming skills in modern C (C17 or later)

• An interest in how software actually runs on hardware: memory caches networking

• A high degree of flexibility and adaptability: willing and able to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment

• Ability to solve problems creatively and proactively

• Curiosity and a willingness to learn. Interest in financial markets; previous knowledge is not required.

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class 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 Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative high-performance 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.