About the company
IMC is a leading trading firm, known worldwide for our advanced, low-latency technology and world-class execution capabilities. Over the past 30 years, we’ve been a stabilizing force in the financial markets – providing the essential liquidity our counterparties depend on. Across offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented employees are united by our entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional culture, and commitment to giving back. It's a strong foundation that allows us to grow and add new capabilities, year after year. From entering dynamic new markets, to developing a state-of-the-art research environment and diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to imagine what could be and work together to make it happen.
Job Summary
Your Core Responsibilities:
📍Build robust, fully automated, low-latency, high-throughput trading systems systems used to predict and trade cryptocurrency and equity markets 📍Design and build large-scale cutting-edge data analysis and computation infrastructure. This includes data processing engines that ingest large quantities of data in a time and memory-efficient manner. 📍Establish low latency exchange and market connectivity 📍Work together with researchers to tackle challenging problems of optimal execution: analyze tick data, estimate market impact, optimize execution algorithms and so forth
Your Skills and Experience:
📍Highly experienced in Python. Experience with Rust is preferred. 📍Strong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of Python language fundamentals (OOP and functional programming) 📍Preferably a scientific mindset with experience in numerical programming with Python / Rust. 📍Knowledge of and experience with mechanics of trading exchanges, market microstructure, exchange/market connectivity, execution, WebSockets, APIs, and Linux.
