Trading Strategy Software Engineer

IMC Trading; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC, a global trading firm, seeks a Software Engineer to deliver trading strategy software and related tools from its London/Amsterdam bases. You will work on applications spanning trading algorithms, options pricing, volatility calculations, and data analysis, using Java 21+ and Python 3.

We value collaboration with traders, strong CS fundamentals, and the ability to own end-to-end solutions in a dynamic environment. Prior financial services exposure is a plus.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficient in Java and Python with strong CS fundamentals.
• Experience in algorithms, data structures, and concurrency.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with traders to understand strategies and implement them.
• Develop, test, deploy, tune, and maintain trading applications in Java and Python.
• Improve performance and user experience of Strategy systems.

Skills

Java

Python

Kotlin

Algorithms

Data structures

Concurrency

Quantitative skills

Education

Master’s or PhD in CS

Tools

JVM

Git

Job description

At IMC, technology is at the core of everything we do. Our innovative in‑house software drives millions of trading decisions daily, allowing us to outperform the competition through faster, more effective decision‑making.

Based in London & Amsterdam, IMC's Trading Strategy Software Engineers deliver a wide variety of applications, systems and tools, including trading algorithm implementations, options pricing, volatility calculations, simulation frameworks, and data analysis & visualization tools for traders.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Close collaboration with traders to gain a deep understanding of Trading strategies and implement them optimally.
• Building cutting‑edge solutions by developing, testing, deploying, tuning, and maintaining a variety of applications in Java, algorithms, new research infrastructures, and automation for Trading Teams.
• Continuously improving functional and operational sides of Strategy systems to enhance user experience and overall system performance.

Your Skills And Experience

• At least 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer with excellent programming abilities.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, memory models, and concurrency models.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills and a keen interest in applying them to the Trading field.
• Prior experience having worked in related industries (ideally within financial services).
• Ability to work independently, analyze business requirements, communicate with stakeholders, take full ownership of the solutions you build and deliver.
• Highly adaptable and able to thrive in uncertain, rapidly evolving environments.
• Master’s or PhD degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience with JVM‑based languages (Java, Kotlin) or Python.
• Advanced math and quantitative skills are a plus.
• Experience with and interest in building information‑rich user‑facing applications, GUIs, UXs is a plus.
• Experience with large‑scale data and research pipelines compute clusters is a plus.

In our current Tech stack we work with Java 21+ and Python 3 as the main programming languages to implement our Strategy software. We constantly evolve our technology stack and look for tools that best suit the problems at hand. If a new technology holds promise, we actively explore, adopt, and develop it.

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting‑edge research environment and a world‑class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve 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.