Graduate Software Engineer (Digital Assets)

IMC has a strong presence in traditional Finance and has been expanding into Crypto over the last years. Through its overseas affiliates IMC provides liquidity and trades on many cryptocurrency exchanges and DeFi protocols. You can expect a dynamic fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities with one of the most exciting aspects of the job being our quick feedback loop in the research development and deployment of strategies.

As a Graduate Software Engineer youll be joining our core engineering team. You will contribute to our proprietary low-latency trading system acquire market and trading data implement ETL processes and collaborate with traders and researchers on improving the trading results.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Design develop maintain and improve the in-house data infrastructure powering our market and trading data platforms covering both batch and real-time streaming pipelines.
• Build and extend scalable data pipelines to support additional exchanges trading venues and new business domains.
• Work closely with software engineers quantitative researchers and traders to deliver reliable high-performance data solutions for research and production trading.
• Contribute throughout the software development lifecycle from design and implementation to testing deployment monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Help improve the performance reliability scalability and observability of our distributed data processing systems.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Master or bachelor degree in Computer Science Mathematics Physics or another related technical field.
• Strong programming skills in Python and at least one statically typed language such as Java Scala Go C or Rust.
• Experience with Python data analysis tools such as Jupyter Notebook Pandas NumPy or modern distributed DataFrame frameworks through coursework research internships or personal projects.
• Solid computer science fundamentals including algorithms data structures concurrency and parallelism networking fundamentals software architecture and writing clean maintainable code.
• A performance-oriented mindset with an interest in building scalable distributed systems and understanding concepts such as latency throughput memory efficiency serialization backpressure fault tolerance and state management.
• Exposure to modern data engineering and data lake technologies such as Apache Spark Apache Flink Apache Iceberg ClickHouse Apache Kafka Apache Airflow Dagster or similar technologies is a plus.
• Exposure to modern infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes Docker CI/CD GitOps observability and monitoring is a plus.
• Excellent written and spoken English with the ability to collaborate effectively in an international team.
• Passionate about designing developing testing deploying maintaining and continuously improving software.

Location and Office Culture:

• IMC office in Zug Switzerland.
• Note that this is an onsite role with some but limited flexibility for working from home.
• You can expect a dynamic fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities.
• One of the most exciting aspects of the job is our quick feedback loop in the research development and deployment of strategies.
• 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 teams and offices.

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.