Software Engineer - Tooling

IMC Trading; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading in Hong Kong seeks a versatile software engineer to build tools that empower traders and researchers. You’ll tackle ambiguous problems, switch between languages and technologies, and work closely with stakeholders to understand real needs.

You’ll contribute to analytics, data exploration, and infrastructure that scales, with a culture of fast feedback and hands-on collaboration across global teams.

Job description

The Live Trading, Analysis & Tooling engineering team exists to make sure our traders and researchers have all the tools they need to run and analyse their trading at scale. We tackle both ends of scaling - we help traders maximise how many strategies they can trade, and help them analyse specific moments to find new opportunities. Our team sits close to the people who use what we build, with short iteration loops, fast feedback, and a lot of conversation.

The work is broad. We build tools that help traders orchestrate strategies across our full product range. We build infrastructure that makes large amounts of data quickly explorable. We model risk, analyse trades, and figure out where new opportunities might be.

Our toolkit is just as broad. Python, Java, React, SQL, any tool that solves the issue at hand.

About You

• You're energised by problems where the brief doesn't exist yet. Working out what to build is as much the job as building it
• You can move between languages without it slowing you down. The right tool matters more to you than your favourite one
• You like working with stakeholders across the business and you're good at figuring out what someone actually needs, not just what they asked for
• You can pivot. You enjoy trying out new ideas quickly and scaling them once they’ve proven value - or throwing them out if they didn’t work

What You Don't Need

A finance background. Experience in any particular language. A specific set of years in any particular role. We hire engineers who like to solve the problems our traders face - we'll teach you the context on the ground.

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.