Java Software Engineer

IMC Trading; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading seeks a Software Engineer to join multidisciplinary teams in Amsterdam. You will own end-to-end product development for trading and risk applications, delivering reliable, high-performance software with automated testing and daily deployments.

You will work with traders and risk teams to gather requirements, implement automation, and balance latency with maintainability. The role demands 5+ years experience, Java 17+, Docker, Kubernetes, and willingness to travel for US and Australia

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong Java 17+ skills.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Proficiency with Linux environments.
• Ability to gather requirements and deliver quickly.
• Willingness to travel internationally (US ESTA and Australia ETA/eVisitor).

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain trading applications for multiple teams.
• Collaborate with risk teams and traders to gather requirements and implement automated solutions.

Skills

5+ years exp

Java 17+

Linux

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

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.

Your Core Responsibilities

As a software engineer, you'll work in multidisciplinary teams alongside other engineers as well as risk teams and traders to deliver challenging projects, while taking ownership for end-to-end product development - from requirements gathering to production. You'll write reliable, high-performance software while balancing time to production with quality and testability. Advanced automated testing and daily deployments will allow you to achieve agile and incremental benefits. Within a complex landscape of varying systems and technologies, you'll be constantly challenged to consider trade-offs between latency, throughput, simplicity, scalability and maintainability. Your core tasks will include:

• Coding, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining applications and automations for Trading Teams and/or Risk Management, Mid-Office and Strategy Development Teams.
• Working through internal client requests. Gathering details, requirements and feedback from a range of internal stakeholders in order to implement creative automation solutions using innovative coding practices.

Your Skills And Experience

• At least 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Strong programming skills in Java 17+. Experience in the latest versions of Java is highly desirable
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Comfortable in Linux environments
• Experience gathering business requirements, communicating with key stakeholders and delivering solutions quickly
• The ability able to work on greenfield projects under minimal supervision and to take full ownership of the applications you build
• A high degree of flexibility and adaptability: willing and able to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment
• Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills; ability to solve problems creatively and proactively
• MUST have passport valid for US (ESTA) and Australia (ETA/eVisitor or visa) business trips.

Our tech stack includes an ever-evolving range of systems and technologies, and our engineers have the freedom to choose the best solution for the problem at hand. If a new technology has the potential to add value, we'll actively invest in exploring, adopting and developing it.

About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.