Java Software Engineer IMC Trading · Sydney, Australia 16 hours ago

Tradermath; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC's Core Trading Systems (CTS) team in Sydney builds high-performance Java services for instrument definition, position tracking, market risk and PnL reporting. You will own end-to-end delivery for scalable, low-latency systems used by traders worldwide.

Join a global engineering culture; collaborate with traders, risk managers and engineers across sites to drive reliable production systems, code quality and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency and multithreading.
• Experience building and running distributed, server-side systems in production.
• A solid grasp of software design, testing and clean, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high-performance Java services for instrument definition, position tracking, market risk, execution risk controls and PnL reporting
• Extend our core platforms so IMC's trading systems can support new markets, products and exchanges
• Work directly with traders, risk managers and engineers, locally and globally, to turn their requirements into robust, scalable solutions
• Improve the reliability, latency and throughput of systems that every IMC trading desk depends on
• Own your work end to end, from design and testing through deployment, monitoring and production support
• Contribute to code reviews, design discussions and engineering standards across a global team

Skills

Java

CS fundamentals

Distributed systems

Multithreading

Code quality

Job description

At IMC, technology is not a department; it’s 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.

Core Trading Systems (CTS) is a global team building the core platforms that every IMC trading system relies on. The team owns the cross-cutting concerns that sit underneath all our strategies: instrument definition, position tracking, market risk, execution risk controls and PnL reporting. Sitting at the centre of IMC's trading stack, CTS has firm-wide reach. The team partners with trading, technology and risk stakeholders in Sydney and around the world to help IMC enter new markets, make smarter decisions and run more reliable, performant systems.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain high-performance Java services for instrument definition, position tracking, market risk, execution risk controls and PnL reporting
• Extend our core platforms so IMC's trading systems can support new markets, products and exchanges
• Work directly with traders, risk managers and engineers, locally and globally, to turn their requirements into robust, scalable solutions
• Improve the reliability, latency and throughput of systems that every IMC trading desk depends on
• Own your work end to end, from design and testing through deployment, monitoring and production support
• Contribute to code reviews, design discussions and engineering standards across a global team

Your Skills and Experience:

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with Java as your primary language
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency and multithreading
• Experience building and running distributed, server-side systems in production
• A solid grasp of software design, testing and clean, maintainable code